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Mar-24-21
 | | perfidious: <....“Please read ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,'” Powell wrote. “Lawyers have an ethical obligation to raise important issues and represent unpopular causes.”> Spare me. |
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Mar-24-21
 | | saffuna: I think Powell's big mistake was defaming Dominion, a private company. She could have said anything she wanted about the election system in general, no matter how false. But she damaged Dominion very specifically, hurts its business reputation, and will have to pay for that. |
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Mar-24-21
| | perfidious: As Summers wrote of Tail Gunner Joe in his biography of J Edgar Hoover, Powell's accusations were tiresomely specific, as Hoover admonished McCarthy for doing, rather than carried out in generalities. Hopefully this breaks the termagant. |
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Mar-25-21
 | | Richard Taylor: I think human beings are more complex. I would avoid terms like "total dipstick". I think that people are, in a deep sense, not responsible for anything. This seems strange. But we simply are the resultant of an infinite number of causations. This is well known in philosophy. The big debate became whether there was free will. The church at first, or at times, rejected free will or individual agency. Later they decided that if God was to create something from nothing then free will, at least for God, had to be. In philosophy and psychology we simply are.
Parents can change one's life. Each person reacts differently to a parent. It is complex. Adolf Hitler. I read a book about him when he was young. His friend knew he was different. He had a lot of good qualities. When born, all humans do. When his mother was dying, Hitler was teenager and went to huge lengths to learn to cook, to make his mother as comfortable as possible. Hi friend in Austria owed his music career to Hitler. Then Hitler found that women and men were very (extremely attracted to him). But he rejected them all. Later he became, as Bobby Fischer and many others did, anti-Semitic. He felt that Germany had been wronged. The OSS actually psychoanalysed him, I read that. We cannot know what made Trump. He and his supporters are humans like us. I was interested in Hitler as a teenager. Then I read the Diary of Anne Frank. But it is hard to avoid the infinite causational chain. Some (Chrisitian religious) believed that those who had "grace" could do anything at all and still get to heaven. This is the basis of the classic Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg. And who is to say that the Marquis view of the world is "wrong". Who can, in fact, define right an wrong. I suspect it is a relative term, related to humans in more compact groups. I also think we have "fallen" into civilization. As humans moved from hunter-gatherer groups to "civilization" the problem was soon clear. As populations slowly increased, then land and tree clearance began, the wetlands were lost (this is increasing), and the State was able to tax esp. grain. I read this:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=again... James Scott doesn't quite fall into the 'noble savage' trap. But he rethought his lectures. On the other hand Johan Norberg, following Stephen Pinker, took ten parameters and concluded that in all counts things are vastly improved. I read that also. I feel that people can be very much moulded by their parents. I was. My father wasn't "bad" but I was very influenced by him and my mother. |
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Mar-25-21
| | Richard Taylor: I actually don't think that Biden is necessarily "better". The trouble is that Capitalism will continue -- for how long we don't know as humans may not survive another century. But it will continue for now and that means that the super rich, Big Money, will control things. There have (and may always be) elites and stratas, heirarchies. Democracy as we know it may be a temporary thing. It is only working haphazardly at best. Mainly it is a cover to enable the rich to continue to live in immense luxury and the poor to stay poor or controlled or both. Wars seem always to happen (even inrelatively small sizes so to speak). Most of the world for example doesn't care much what "Western nations" are doing. In fact we are all probably collapsing with more or less speed. Perhaps we can accept there is a moral injunction, I forget Kant's term, and if we do we might start thinking about people in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and even in our own countries (here there are a lot of social problems, there are a lot of shootings at the moment for example and other issues) -- but perhaps we can look to the poets, Auden has a line in one poem: '...we must love one another or die...'. We have to bring about equality, eliminate elites and "stars", eliminate political parties, look to cooperating together in the whole world as human beings. We have to enormously reduce pollution. We are facing a crisis. It may be insoluble. (At least by the way, Trump didn't start any wars). But Trump and all the others are very well payed. There are enormous wastes. We need to head to some kind of Socialist system where the people are in a real democracy, where they really decide. Some of the rancour against the liberals I can understand. Some of the force behind Trumps amazing success was his popularity and appeal to (often) poor working people. If those groups had combined. Without the White Supremacy etc, into a real working class force, then I would support a massive revolution in the US, UK, Russia, or say China, in fact in the whole world. The people need to take over and accept a kind of Rousseauian Social Contract, or a real working democracy. I understand that the mere development of ANY democracy is an achievement. But those who pushed to get that have to keep pushing and pushing. And the development of the United Nations was an advance. But it has to be ALL the nations, equally contributing. No elites. |
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Mar-25-21
| | Richard Taylor: Up there I meant: "The viewpoint of the Marquis de Sade". I think we operate at a kind of low probability level of "test", or we act along a kind of 'common-sense' model. In this we need to avoid too much specialization and go more with our feelings about things that any preconceived theories. |
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| Mar-25-21 | | Refused: <<FSR>You didn't succeed in linking to the article. I think this is the one you're referring to: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news... Happened, because I edited, well more copied, pasted and edited my OP, because it was missing a <no>. and as you can presumably see now, when you <quote> links by copy and paste they get chopped off. Long story short, thanks for the answer and edit. So do you think all of the three stooges (Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Rudy Giuliani) will get disbarred at the end of the day? I know people were pushing proceedings in several states to have them disbarred. As for Powell's defense. What a reasonable person can assume, and what a court concludes do not have to be the same thing necessarily. I mean afterall, in the US an influential school of constitutional scholars apparently resort to Ouija boards and the worn pants of the founding fathers to converse with their spirits to conclude what their original intention were and how they want it understood 250 years later. |
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Mar-25-21
| | perfidious: <Refused....I mean afterall, in the US an influential school of constitutional scholars apparently resort to Ouija boards and the worn pants of the founding fathers to converse with their spirits to conclude what their original intention were and how they want it understood 250 years later.> And one of their disciples here at CG decries change of any sort as 'tyranny!' while wishing to see anyone who advocates change walking those thirteen steps or standing before the firing squad. |
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Mar-26-21
 | | FSR: <Refused> Who knows? I'm pretty damned cynical at this point. Our "justice system" is a sick joke. |
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Mar-26-21
| | FSR: <perfidious> OMG. Sydney Powell thinks she's Atticus Finch? Give me an effing break. |
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Mar-26-21
| | FSR: Trump's second impeachment trial demonstrates what hogwash that <intent of the framers> crap is. The Republicans in acquitting Trump claimed it was unconstitutional to try someone after he'd left office. It's plain as day that (1) the framers of the Constitution knew of and endorsed the ability to impeach and try someone after he'd left office, and (2) Congress had done so in 1797 (Sen. Blount) and 1876 (Secretary of War Belknap). Incidentally, <Secretary of War> is a much more honest title than our current <Secretary of Defense> BS. |
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Mar-26-21
| | perfidious: As all of us well know, the Republicans are determined to rule by fiat: to wit, the contrast in their handling of the nominations for SCOTUS of Merrick Garland and Amy Coney Barrett provides convincing and chilling evidence of the lengths to which they will go to rule by decree. While Trump may be finished as president, his actions have set the stage for someone with more brains than balls to try the same playbook. |
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Mar-27-21
 | | chancho: BigPawn/George Wallace is either a troll or really believes in his deluded tripe. (Probably both.)
He lives in one of the most liberal states in the union and yet he spews hard right vomit on a daily basis. Maybe he should move to Alabama if Liberal Hell in Massachusetts is too much for him. He tried to downplay the effects of the virus early on and said the numbers were meaningless, that no one was talking about the virus.
Now he complains that covid numbers are no longer being posted on the Rogoff page??
Weird. |
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| Mar-27-21 | | Refused: FWIW, I think I might correct myself on the GW identity. Syntax and vocabulary looks more like Morty to me. And it's also in line with his old tricks of altering or outright inventing quotes. While tiny was just horrible person in different ways. Not that it matters much, which trainwreck of a human being is operating the socks. <While Trump may be finished as president, his actions have set the stage for someone with more brains than balls to try the same playbook.> Debatable. Part of the appeal for the orange one was his boorish personality. If a <smart> person tries to pull it off, it would feel fake and phoney. Just ask Teddy boy. I mean, you have to be dumb to believe that nonsense isn't just Powell's defense, it the Republican base. The bigger problem is going to be voter suppression in Republican held states. I think Georgia's 21st century Jim Crow, as Biden put it, is just the beginning. And I wouldn't expect much help from that SCOTUS. Question for <FSR> who do you think is the most horrible justice right now. I am torn between Thomas and Alito. I haven't seen enough from Serena Joy and drunk Fratboy yet. I just hope Breyer has the good sense to really retire when this session comes to an end, so Biden can get an appointment, and we avoid an RBG repeat. |
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Mar-27-21
| | perfidious: <chancho….(<bumptious putz>) tried to downplay the effects of the virus early on and said the numbers were meaningless, that no one was talking about the virus. Now he complains that covid numbers are no longer being posted on the Rogoff page?? Weird.> Human beings of any stripe have never been known for logical or consistent behaviour. Proof positive is in the content of what emanates from the vile maw of <kudzu catamite>. |
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| Mar-29-21 | | Refused: Just for the laughs.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news... Ofc he did. I mean <why would you let him speak at your wedding, and why would you have your wedding there.?> Those are the only questions I have for happy couple. |
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| Mar-29-21 | | Refused: And in less fun news.
Longer, grimmer, but highly recommend link to read. https://www.vox.com/22276279/suprem... |
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Mar-29-21
| | perfidious: This excerpt from Vox 'bout says it all:
<....While Reaganism was ascendant, conservative judges were often the biggest cheerleaders for broad judicial deference to federal agencies, frequently justifying such deference as a way to keep an unelected judiciary from undercutting democracy. As then-Judge Kenneth Starr wrote in a 1986 article on administrative law, in part because federal judges are not directly accountable to any electorate, I believe they have a duty voluntarily to exercise judicial restraint.....> Oh, but now that bottom rail's on top, Right-leaning members of SCOTUS are only too happy to crush the ruling party's attempts to better the lot of the American people. |
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Mar-30-21
| | chancho: <Perf> If you can navigate through Trump's revisionist history piled upon a mountain of malodorous bulls.hit then you're a much braver man than I. https://www.45office.com/%20
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 |
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Mar-30-21
| | perfidious: <I'm here to bring diversity to the community. As an ambassador of the Truth, I am always unwelcome but valuable none the less.> 'Diversity'?
Hahahahaha!!
The 'Truth'?
<bumptious catamite> is so full of s***, everyone within ten miles can hear his a***hole puckering. 'Unwelcome'?
Certainly he knows the one about the blind squirrel. |
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| Apr-01-21 | | Refused: The Matt PizzaGaetz thing is freaking amazing.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/... I think he might be the most Florida man in congress right now. |
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Apr-01-21
| | perfidious: Bet the <Pernicious Pensacolan> luvs that there boy Gaetz and has voted for him every time. May not be another shot at <that> brass ring in his future, tho, if the not so Hon Mr Gaetz was playing with children. His next date might well be with Bubba, unless he takes the coward's way out of his fix. Wonder whether his girl friend still feels, shall we say, Luckey. |
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Apr-03-21
| | perfidious: Kelly Loeffler, another lover of selective truth: <...."We’re getting to the point where these efforts by the media to operate as a political arm for the liberal causes influences elections, and Americans need to know that the media no longer asks the questions,” Loeffler told the Washington Examiner. “They’re writing the narrative.”She added, “The media has long been relied upon to hold authorities, elected officials, government accountable. We can’t trust it to do that today. It can't be left to the media anymore. We have to have more sunlight on the facts and openness to the facts. And if that’s not going to come through the media, we need other channels.”> Guess it is all situational, though; more'n okay for her beloved Right to tar Democrats when, as and if it suits them. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli... |
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Apr-06-21
| | chancho: Trump with a portrait of Air Force One and another one of Mt. Rushmore behind him: https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploa... Next to him is the fawning moron Stephen Miller before the commencement of their ass-kissing session. *laughs* Trump's mindset kind of reminded me of Brad Whitaker playing with his toys before 007 arrives: https://youtu.be/bZYeWBfnuK0?t=35 |
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Apr-06-21
| | saffuna: Also, a Coke bottle hidden away n the photo. He's boycotting Coca Cola, you know. |
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