2020 Election
Quote: SanchoPanzaMaybe you mean just like this small sampling from just a short period of time:
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The Compilation of every CNN fake news story against Trump since he became the Republican nominee.
Gee, I need to turn on CNN and see what they are reporting
Trump going insanely bonkers on CNN this morning. Boy is the orange moron pissed
A tweet from just minutes ago
"...Dumb and Sick. A really bad show with low ratings - and will only get worse. CNN has been a proven and long term ratings and beyond disaster. In fact, it rewarded Chris Cuomo with a now unsuccessful prime time slot, despite his massive failure in the morning. Only on CNN!"
What a chump , getting up to whine at the world
ROTFL
Quote: terapinedGee, I need to turn on CNN and see what they are reporting
Trump going insanely bonkers on CNN this morning. Boy is the orange moron pissed
A tweet from just minutes ago
"...Dumb and Sick. A really bad show with low ratings - and will only get worse. CNN has been a proven and long term ratings and beyond disaster. In fact, it rewarded Chris Cuomo with a now unsuccessful prime time slot, despite his massive failure in the morning. Only on CNN!"
What a chump , getting up to whine at the world
ROTFL
At least he's right.
Forgiving student loans won't hinder that process...without total reform of the student loan process, new students will still borrow and colleges will likely continue to raise prices.
Just like you can't fix the border with just a wall, you can't fix this problem with just loan forgiveness. Perhaps forgiving student loan interest and limiting the amount of loans to the current levels, or lower, would be a start. We cannot possibly solve every problem with "gives" of all kinds...
Quote: RSAt least he's right.
Why not just change the channel.
I don't have the foggiest idea what fox is reporting.
Just weird. Seems conservatives watch more CNN then libs
Quote: RonCThe current student loan situation has allowed colleges to raise prices at will because students can "afford" to attend, based on the availability of loans.
Forgiving student loans won't hinder that process...without total reform of the student loan process, new students will still borrow and colleges will likely continue to raise prices.
Just like you can't fix the border with just a wall, you can't fix this problem with just loan forgiveness. Perhaps forgiving student loan interest and limiting the amount of loans to the current levels, or lower, would be a start. We cannot possibly solve every problem with "gives" of all kinds...
I don't agree with Warren regarding the ,loans. You borrow, you owe
I do support the free education to a certain extant.
Private colleges should remain private
but
Public universities , I can see a system where it becomes free like grade school
I'm ok paying for that. I already pay for education up to 12th grade and I have no kids but its my tax money well spent
Quote: terapinedI don't have the foggiest idea what fox is reporting.
Most likely some race-baiting B.S. about Mexicans.
Quote: RonC
Just like you can't fix the border with just a wall, you can't fix this problem with just loan forgiveness. Perhaps forgiving student loan interest and limiting the amount of loans to the current levels, or lower, would be a start. We cannot possibly solve every problem with "gives" of all kinds...
The system is out of date. Why does it take 4 years? Why do we still take all these unrelated courses? Many colleges need to close, I mean possibly 20%. Stop making loans altogether for degrees with no career prospects. Women's Studies is not a career, it is a hobby. Get schools to slim down administrative costs. Set a percent limit. Do students really get any value at all from a school having a "Director of Diversity?" I can't see how that improves education.
The good news is the kids are fixing it from the ground up. Attendance is falling. ROI is being looked at. Certifications are getting more value than degrees. The scam is shown for what it is.
Quote: AZDuffmanWhy do we still take all these unrelated courses?
Yes, you shouldn't be forced to learn anything more than what you need, so we all can be more natural like chimps and baboons in the wild.
Quote: rxwineYes, you shouldn't be forced to learn anything more than what you need, so we all can be more natural like chimps and baboons in the wild.
If you want to be a baboon that is fine. But what on earth does an arts course have to do with setting up computer networks? No need for half or more of the general education courses people are forced to take. Just the education-industrial complex shaking the kids down.
Quote: AZDuffmanIf you want to be a baboon that is fine. But what on earth does an arts course have to do with setting up computer networks? No need for half or more of the general education courses people are forced to take. Just the education-industrial complex shaking the kids down.
College is a marathon, not a sprint. I think a good deal of the college experience comes from doing with less for four years. I remember working a part time job and barely having beer money, watching my friends who didn't go to college have cash in their pockets and by the time I was a Senior, many were driving new cars and sharing beachhouses in the Hamptons. The best of us suck it up and drive through it.
Everyone experiences life. Evidently, not everyone enjoys it.
Quote: rxwine...so we all can be more natural like chimps and baboons in the wild.
You had my curiosity. Now you have my attention
Quote: AZDuffmanIf you want to be a baboon that is fine. But what on earth does an arts course have to do with setting up computer networks?
All those corporations you champion sure put a premium on art. It's one of capitalism's most studied and important aspects.
If forced to house my self or business in the city, I'd pick Evolution tower over the Twin towers 100 times out of 100
Quote: FaceYou had my curiosity. Now you have my attention
All those corporations you champion sure put a premium on art. It's one of capitalism's most studied and important aspects.
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If forced to house my self or business in the city, I'd pick Evolution tower over the Twin towers 100 times out of 100
If people like art, fine. Not once in my career has my boss cared what I knew about it. If I do want to study it I can go to a museum for free. FWIW the last few shows I have worked I did not like the piece you were "supposed to like best." Always liked some side piece better. I would never stand in that line to see Mona Lisa, would go to the impressionists hall.
Why no need for art appreciation class:
Quote: billryanCollege is a marathon, not a sprint. I think a good deal of the college experience comes from doing with less for four years. I remember working a part time job and barely having beer money, watching my friends who didn't go to college have cash in their pockets and by the time I was a Senior, many were driving new cars and sharing beachhouses in the Hamptons. The best of us suck it up and drive through it.
Everyone experiences life. Evidently, not everyone enjoys it.
The "college experience" is for upper class white kids. I did not grow up on their side of the tracks (or in my case the state highway that split the good side of town from mine.) Half of what the degree gives you is street cred for sticking to things. I had some fun times, but today I would never do it.
What we seem to have is too many college admins too impressed with themselves. Too sold on their faculty lounge talk about "making complete people" or whatever they want to call it, not turning out employable adults. Except for the Husbandry majors, people go to college to get employable. Then you get out and see you are not special at all.
Better to get a CCNA or Comp Tia cert. 1/4 the time, better results.
Quote:Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of sh*t. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God... what... have... I... created?
If being a tw*t was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
Quote: TigerWuBritish writer Nate White perfectly describes Donald Trump:
Nailed it
Quote: terapinedSeems conservatives watch more CNN then libs
Of course, it's fun to watch
them melt down. Unlike Libs
who are terrified to watch Fox
because their beliefs are so
flimsy. They might hear truth
and common sense and then
be awfully confused..
Quote: AZDuffmanpeople go to college to get employable.
They think they 'have to go', that
they have no choice. Many of them
don't, thinking for themselves is
not who they are.
Quote: EvenBobOf course, it's fun to watch
them melt down. Unlike Libs
who are terrified to watch Fox
because their beliefs are so
flimsy. They might hear truth
and common sense and then
be awfully confused..
Life is too short to listen to liars.
Quote: beachbumbabsLife is too short to listen to liars.
I agree
I block the liars and racists here
IMO I think you would have to block everyone, depending on what standard you use. If someone claims they are not racist at all against anyone, then they are probably lying.Quote: terapinedI agree
I block the liars and racists here
Quote: TigerWuBritish writer Nate White perfectly describes Donald Trump:
Gave me a giggle....
Quote:And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
Irish famine. Bengal famine. Kenyan camps. "The sun never sets on the British empire".
Physician heal thyself lol
Quote: AxelWolfIMO I think you would have to block everyone, depending on what standard you use. If someone claims they are not racist at all against anyone, then they are probably lying.
its only 2 members
I have them blocked on both sites
They know who they are because I never respond to their posts
Quote: terapinedits only 2 members
I have them blocked on both sites
They know who they are because I never respond to their posts
I know who they are because, well, it’s pretty obvious. ;)
Quote: FaceYou had my curiosity. Now you have my attention
All those corporations you champion sure put a premium on art. It's one of capitalism's most studied and important aspects.
If forced to house my self or business in the city, I'd pick Evolution tower over the Twin towers 100 times out of 100
Yet, art still has nothing to do with setting up a computer network or computer programming. Just like how learning Calculus or graph theory isn’t going to be helpful to someone who is learning art stuff.
Quote:for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
This was said by a BRITISH GUY? Holy crap, the irony is real.
Quote: terapinedits only 2 members
I have them blocked on both sites
They know who they are because I never respond to their posts
Add me and make it 3 members
Quote: FleaswatterAdd me and make it 3 members
Welcome to a very exclusive club! We have great discussions.
Quote: AZDuffmanWelcome to a very exclusive club! We have great discussions.
Thank you for the welcome!
Quote: FleaswatterAdd me and make it 3 members
No
you make me laugh
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Quote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Previous waves of feminism were different. Today's feminists make misandry a requirement.
I just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Quote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Now this post has GOTTA break the new hate speech rule, right?
Quote: ams288Quote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Now this post has GOTTA break the new hate speech rule, right?
Not insulting a member of the forum. Probably no worse than I have seen from some lefties on here.
Quote: FaceGave me a giggle....
Quote:And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
Irish famine. Bengal famine. Kenyan camps. "The sun never sets on the British empire".
Physician heal thyself lol
Grandma used to tell us the sun never sets on the British Empire because even God knows not to trust the English in the dark!
Quote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Axels posts are beginning to resemble those shields the very fine people carried in Charlottesville.
Speaking of which, I saw a high school principle was fired after he was filmed carrying one of those shields and showing off his white power ring in Charlottesville.. He claims he had no idea the words on his shield might be considered offensive and the shield was actually a sun shade because he thought he would be standing in the sun for hours.
Quote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Axel,
WARNING. This is a derogatory term and does fall under the Wizard's new rule about hate speech against groups. Check any dictionary (I checked Merriam-Webster, Google, Wiki, and the OED.)
I don't doubt you meant to be funny, but you're over the line in this context.
What is the PC term instead of D***s?Quote: beachbumbabsQuote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Axel,
WARNING. This is a derogatory term and does fall under the Wizard's new rule about hate speech against groups. Check any dictionary (I checked Merriam-Webster, Google, Wiki, and the OED.)
I don't doubt you meant to be funny, but you're over the line in this context.
Quote: petroglyphWhat is the PC term instead of D***s?Quote: beachbumbabsQuote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Axel,
WARNING. This is a derogatory term and does fall under the Wizard's new rule about hate speech against groups. Check any dictionary (I checked Merriam-Webster, Google, Wiki, and the OED.)
I don't doubt you meant to be funny, but you're over the line in this context.
Dunno, but I guess don't mention the famous female M.C.
Quote: petroglyphWhat is the PC term instead of D***s?Quote: beachbumbabsQuote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Axel,
WARNING. This is a derogatory term and does fall under the Wizard's new rule about hate speech against groups. Check any dictionary (I checked Merriam-Webster, Google, Wiki, and the OED.)
I don't doubt you meant to be funny, but you're over the line in this context.
I overheard someone with a millennial mullet use the words doughnut bumper to describe a lesbian. I'm pretty sure those people are the ones who invented PC.
Quote: petroglyphWhat is the PC term instead of D***s?Quote: beachbumbabsQuote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Axel,
WARNING. This is a derogatory term and does fall under the Wizard's new rule about hate speech against groups. Check any dictionary (I checked Merriam-Webster, Google, Wiki, and the OED.)
I don't doubt you meant to be funny, but you're over the line in this context.
female
I used to audio record at a lot of music festivals
I was at a festival because Los Lobos was closing
Earlier in the day, Dar Williams performed
We were surrounded by females
I asked my taping buddy whats up. He said Dar is very popular with gays and that's why so many females surrounded us
As long as the buyer (prospective enrollee) is aware of what you are getting for what you pay for, I seeno problem with expensive colleges. Of course it is not right for everyone. But AZ's take seems to be that it's right for no one and I strongly disagree with that.
I use my son, the crossword puzzle kid, who is an entomologist as another example. He was at Carnegie Mellon undergraduate and took one more class each semester than he needed to, but always at the maximum before there was an extra charge. I asked him why he wanted to work that hard and he told me he would never in his later life be able to take the philosophy or music class that he could now.
You can try for a century, but you could never convince me I wasted the $250k on his education.
Edit.... I tried to quote Rx from page 175 of this thread..... It was he I was agreeing with.....
I don't know about all that. However, I think a few members on this forum are trying to recruit me in their hate group. It's obvious they have corrupted me. It's all their fault. *Googles forum member senitivity classes in my area.Quote: billryanQuote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Axels posts are beginning to resemble those shields the very fine people carried in Charlottesville.
Speaking of which, I saw a high school principle was fired after he was filmed carrying one of those shields and showing off his white power ring in Charlottesville.. He claims he had no idea the words on his shield might be considered offensive and the shield was actually a sun shade because he thought he would be standing in the sun for hours.
Quote: SOOPOO
As long as the buyer (prospective enrollee) is aware of what you are getting for what you pay for, I seeno problem with expensive colleges. Of course it is not right for everyone. But AZ's take seems to be that it's right for no one and I strongly disagree with that.
No, that is not what I am implying. I am saying at least half the people entering do not belong there. The dropout rate alone shows this. You had the resources to spend on your son at CMU, a good thing. But to borrow to do that is crazy. If someone borrows to take the world-famous drama program there on the finger they are behind for life. For every Lenny and Squiggy that come out of that program, 100 will go nowhere.
Quote: AxelWolfI don't know about all that. However, I think a few members on this forum are trying to recruit me in their hate group. It's obvious they have corrupted me. It's all their fault. *Googles forum member senitivity classes in my area.Quote: billryanQuote: AxelWolfI just call them dykes.Quote: MintyQuote: AZDuffmanVegan Feminist Cafe That Imposed 18% “Gender Surcharge” on Men Closes Down
Tell half the customer base they are not welcome, watch business boom!
Anyone who calls themselves a feminist but discriminates against men is not a feminist in my eyes.
Axels posts are beginning to resemble those shields the very fine people carried in Charlottesville.
Speaking of which, I saw a high school principle was fired after he was filmed carrying one of those shields and showing off his white power ring in Charlottesville.. He claims he had no idea the words on his shield might be considered offensive and the shield was actually a sun shade because he thought he would be standing in the sun for hours.
How about Mayor
Times have changed.
Tampa just elected Jane Castor, former police chief, for Mayor
4 years ago, she could not marry her partner
We've come a long way
Just the endorsement Biden was looking for!
Former Massachusetts' governor.
Weld previously was the 2016 Vice Presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party on the Gary Johnson ticket.
Weld has described himself as fiscally conservative, with goals of slashing spending and balancing the budget. For this reason, he has been described as a "classic conservative"
Weld has been strongly pro-choice for the entirety of his career.
Weld has been a consistent supporter of LGBT rights, and the right of same-sex marriage. He believes that this is a fundamental human right.
Trivia -Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sole federal contribution on record went to Weld. Mueller wrote Weld two checks totaling $450 during Massachusetts’ 1996 U.S. Senate race, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Quote: rxwineBill Weld, the other republican candidate.
Former Massachusetts' governor.
Weld previously was the 2016 Vice Presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party on the Gary Johnson ticket.
Weld has described himself as fiscally conservative, with goals of slashing spending and balancing the budget. For this reason, he has been described as a "classic conservative"
Weld has been strongly pro-choice for the entirety of his career.
Weld has been a consistent supporter of LGBT rights, and the right of same-sex marriage. He believes that this is a fundamental human right.
Trivia -Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sole federal contribution on record went to Weld. Mueller wrote Weld two checks totaling $450 during Massachusetts’ 1996 U.S. Senate race, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
It will give me the warm fuzzies to vote for Weld in the primary, but Trump will dismantle him.
Quote: AcesAndEightsIt will give me the warm fuzzies to vote for Weld in the primary, but Trump will dismantle him.
I could vote for Weld.
Kasich is also talking about coming in.
