Politics of Petulance (title renamed to match original post)

[Dashinka 24,642]

20 hours ago, Family said:

!exciting…do tell, how was it? 

Hot.  Actually, in Korea now, and am having much more fun.  I have watched more global news this past week, than in the last five years.  I am amazed at how much even journalists at the BBC fawn over Harris, and try to depict Walz as a moderate.

[Family 4,065]

2 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Hot.  Actually, in Korea now, and am having much more fun.  I have watched more global news this past week, than in the last five years.  I am amazed at how much even journalists at the BBC fawn over Harris, and try to depict Walz as a moderate.

Do me the honor of uploading anything you find amusing on your travels..right here. 
 

In the meantime….here’s this 

Korean Joke #11

Q: What should you do if a watermelon sues you?

A: 수박! (subak)

 

Explanation: The word 수박 (subak) means watermelon in Korean. And, if you listen to it carefully, 수박 (subak) sounds like sue back in English. So if a watermelon sues, make sure you lawyer up and 수박 (sue back

 

 

https://www.90daykorean.com/korean-jokes/

[TBoneTX 45,649]

2 hours ago, Family said:

Korean Joke

A Jewish guy walked into a bar and sat next to an East Asian.  All of a sudden, with no obvious provocation, he hauled off and slugged the Asian guy, knocking him off his bar stool.

 

"What was that for?!" asked the Asian, rubbing his jaw.

"That's for Pearl Harbor!" snarled the Jewish guy.

"But that was the Japanese, and I'm Korean," said the Asian guy.

"Japanese, Chinese, Korean -- it's all the same to me!" said the Jewish guy.

 

They returned to their drinks.  All of a sudden, the Korean guy hauled off and slugged the Jewish guy, knocking him off his bar stool.

 

"What was that for?!" asked the Jewish guy, rubbing his jaw.

"That's for the Titanic!" said the Korean guy.

"But that was an iceberg!" said the Jewish guy.

"Iceberg, Greenberg, Goldberg -- it's all the same to me!"

[Family 4,065]

 

[Pooky 3,821]

Even Karine Jean Pierre doesn’t want to let Kamal Harris distance herself from Bidenomics.

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,649]

12 minutes ago, Pooky said:

Karine Jean Pierre

Karine Grey-Poupon has been mighty silent lately.

[Family 4,065]

 

[Family 4,065]

Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National Cemetery

 

Two members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery where the former president participated in a wreath laying ceremony, NPR has learned.

 

 

A source with knowledge of the incident said the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members are authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.

 

When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091154/trump-arlington-cemetery

[Boiler 45,739]

 

[Family 4,065]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A ‘Gish Gallop’

 

Mon, 07/08/2024 - 3:00pm 

 

 

 

Dear Editor:

 

What we saw on CNN last Thursday (June 27) was not a debate. It was a travesty, a grotesque imitation with intent to ridicule. It was never meant to be a grown-up conversation structured to enlighten us 60 million viewers about how the candidates would govern in a second term.

Trump shamelessly spewed 602 lies in 40 minutes – that’s a lie every 3.9 seconds. The CNN fact checker couldn’t keep up with him and neither of the CNN moderators challenged anything he said, though little that he said had any connection to the real world.

 

His rhetorical assault is known as a “Gish Gallop” – a gas lighting technique used by con men and domestic abusers to make coherent debate impossible. There is no known defense, and it is rarely seen in public because only sociopaths use it.

 

Trump called America a “hellscape,” the worst country in the world, and has already told us his plan for a second term:  dismantling of the government as we know it, vindictive retribution against those who disagree with him, deportation of millions of hard-working immigrants, destruction of reproductive health care for women, climate degradation, chaos and mayhem. He will be Dictator on Day One. 

 

How can we even imagine such a man as President again?  

 

Trump is the candidate who must be called to step down. 

Susan Stedman 

Westport Island 

 

https://www.wiscassetnewspaper.com/article/gish-gallop/188459

[Family 4,065]

3 hours ago, Boiler said:

 

Gosh , the only one who ever had “notes” was Reagan …😂

 

Reagan's team acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers, classified top secret,^[1] that Carter used in preparation for the October 28, 1980 debate with Reagan.

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

 

[Family 4,065]

 

WASHINGTON — The very first rioter to breach the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison Tuesday after he told a judge he still believes Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election "to this day."

 

 

Michael Sparks, who spent the weeks leading up to the Capitol attack consuming and regurgitating right-wing lies about the last presidential election, was sentenced to 53 months in federal prison at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, who also oversaw the seditious conspiracy trial of members of the Proud Boys.

“I am an American citizen who believes to this day that we are in tyranny,” Sparks told Kelly, adding that he believes the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was “taken from the American people.”

Kelly emphasized that Sparks had the right to believe whatever conspiracy theory he wished no matter how divorced it was from reality but that he did not have the right to storm the Capitol.

“I don’t really think you appreciate the full gravity of what happened that day and frankly the full seriousness of what you did,” Kelly said, explaining why he went over the sentencing guidelines of 15 to 21 months.

 

"A lot of us would like to see our country grapple with different challenges differently," said Kelly, a Trump appointee, but that did not give people license to behave as Sparks did. Given his support from the community and his lack of criminal history, Kelly said there "isn't any obvious explanation" for what Sparks did on Jan. 6, 2021.

 

"What happened on Jan. 6 just cannot happen again," Kelly said, saying rioters had interfered in a process "foundational to our country's governance."

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/first-trump-supporter-breach-capitol-jan-6-sentenced-4-years-prison-rcna168407

[Ban Hammer 13,439]

 

[Family 4,065]

1 hour ago, Ban Hammer said:

 

 

‘’The forest was shrinking but the Trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”— Turkish Proverb

 

 

 

[Ban Hammer 13,439]

3 hours ago, Family said:

 

‘’The forest was shrinking but the Trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”— Turkish Proverb

 

 

 

so a 2 year old youtube is supposed to discredit recent news?