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by GannonFan
Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:06 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Political memes, Posters, Funny Pics, Etc.
Replies: 17696
Views: 1725076

Re: Political memes, Posters, Funny Pics, Etc.

The ROI for WWII vets might have been 7:1. Do you really think the ROI for today's generations are anywhere near that? WWII vets would be ashamed that they'd borrowed money that they couldn't pay back. Yes, an educated workforce increases productivity and innovation but the focus of their education...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:59 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread
Replies: 9044
Views: 968122

Re: Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

I was invited. :ohno: (I pretty much agree with you. It’s unrealistic at this point. There are things that still go bump in the night and we’re still the go-to although Europe is certainly upping its military strength thanks to Putin.) "Its an interesting debate and I'd love to hear Ganny and ...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:05 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Political memes, Posters, Funny Pics, Etc.
Replies: 17696
Views: 1725076

Re: Political memes, Posters, Funny Pics, Etc.

Kalmie trying to pass off Modern Monetary Theory (all government spending is good, and the more of it the better, and there is no limit to this) without anyone noticing. :ohno: Ganny in love with contrarianism, making bad faith arguments. :ohno: Just keep spending, it's all good and never bad! :cof...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:50 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Political memes, Posters, Funny Pics, Etc.
Replies: 17696
Views: 1725076

Re: Political memes, Posters, Funny Pics, Etc.

It's not a 1:1 ROI. There are likely other programs with a higher ROI. Does the law of diminishing returns apply? Is part of the problem that people who took out these loans weren't smart consumers? Borrowing thousands of dollars to get a bachelors or higher degree in social work or similar or to a...
by GannonFan
Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:50 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Deserves its own thread
Replies: 67
Views: 1628

Re: Deserves its own thread

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ac85daeff1243469f271ec2fb87af3f1-lq Albert dominated his classmates so his views on education were obviously distorted… https://www.tsowell.com/speducat.html For those who are interested in schools that produce academic success for minority students, there is ...
by GannonFan
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:02 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden’s Scorecard
Replies: 1678
Views: 95842

Re: Biden’s Scorecard

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1780634674903335289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1780634674903335289%7Ctwgr%5Edeae31aa7696de5a17ea340dd9af2cb1b414bea8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2F2024%2F04%2F18%2Fjuror-quits-over-fear-of-being-outed-after-fox-news...
by GannonFan
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: January 6 - How much do you care?
Replies: 1750
Views: 85043

Re: January 6 - How much do you care?

So not a real gallows though. You can't hang someone with something like that. Would've sworn there'd be some CivE's in that mob of whackos, apparently not. It was symbolic but the message was clear and helps shoot holes in the peaceful tourist argument. Well, that and their trying to beat the crap...
by GannonFan
Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:09 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: January 6 - How much do you care?
Replies: 1750
Views: 85043

Re: January 6 - How much do you care?

Did they actually have gallows constructed? I don't remember that. I'm fine calling it an insurrection, no real argument there. It was certainly a violent mob and they certainly had it in their intent to block government action and to overturn the election. Luckily, they weren't large in numbers, l...
by GannonFan
Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:18 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Deserves its own thread
Replies: 67
Views: 1628

Re: Deserves its own thread

Probably does deserve its own thread. The stuff he was shedding a light on have been talked about here before. The silo effect of a news reporting, and the churn of the same stuff over and over again, has had a significant impact on a news outlet like NPR. No one would've confused them with FOX a d...
by GannonFan
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:42 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: January 6 - How much do you care?
Replies: 1750
Views: 85043

Re: January 6 - How much do you care?

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1780270893853196625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1780270893853196625%7Ctwgr%5Eea7c3eb423d00625ed6d4c2376db3fb36724f768%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ferick-erickson-no-insurrection-twitter-humiliation_...
by GannonFan
Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:22 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Deserves its own thread
Replies: 67
Views: 1628

Re: Deserves its own thread

Senior NPR business editor Uri Berliner admitted in an explosive op-ed published Tuesday that the public radio station’s RussiaGate reporting was a bust, and that it did not fess up to that after no “Russian collusion” was found between the Trump campaign and Russia. Furthermore, Berliner admitted ...
by GannonFan
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Culture Wars
Replies: 939
Views: 45703

Re: Culture Wars

Thanks for posting the link to Berliner's article. You'd hope that that the type of alarm he's sounding would be heard and folks all throughout the world of journalism would hear it and consider what he's saying. However, I get the feeling it's already been ignored and disregarded by the folks that ...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Israel-Palestine Drama Thread
Replies: 764
Views: 31731

Re: Israel-Palestine Drama Thread

Iran has just exposed how impotent it really is Having threatened to exact a terrible vengeance on Israel, all that Iran appears to have achieved by launching its drone and missile attack is to reveal the true extent of the Islamic Republic’s military impotence. Only one of the estimated three hund...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:44 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: MAQA Squad gaffe and verbal bungles watch
Replies: 480
Views: 34738

Re: MAQA Squad gaffe and verbal bungles watch

Yeah, minor detail there. :rofl: Of course he cooperated… with his DOJ Lol Oh stop it. Trump had documents he shouldn't have had. When asked to return them he said no. And he told people to move them so authorities couldn't find them. Of all the cases against Trump, this is the least "trumped&...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:30 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Team Trump v/s Everyone
Replies: 1643
Views: 59005

Re: Team Trump v/s Everyone

Huh? This is like the garbage we have to hear from Carib, just better written and longer. I despise Trump and he'll never be on a ballot I hand in, however, he wasn't a dictator before and he won't be a dictator again. If anything came out of those first 4 years with Trump, it's that the American s...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:21 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Team Trump v/s Everyone
Replies: 1643
Views: 59005

Re: Team Trump v/s Everyone

Not everyone is against Trump (see Sununu). All politics and temporary power, zero principle. That dynamic already appears to be at work as people are obeying in advance. On April 10, Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer David Hume Kennerly resigned from the board of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential ...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:21 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: MAQA Squad gaffe and verbal bungles watch
Replies: 480
Views: 34738

Re: MAQA Squad gaffe and verbal bungles watch

kalm wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:48 pm
Caribbean Hen wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:06 pm

This is exactly why Brandon wasn’t prosecuted for his confidential documents scandal
And the fact he cooperated.
Yeah, minor detail there. :rofl:
by GannonFan
Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:19 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: MAQA Squad gaffe and verbal bungles watch
Replies: 480
Views: 34738

Re: MAQA Squad gaffe and verbal bungles watch

One of the greatest oratorical historians of our time… https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1779487064511160583?s=46&t=ascmQ1_jzEznLLEdWL4H3w Dementia don rambles on. I didn't realize that Robert E Lee spoke with an Irish brogue much less that he said "never fight uphill me boys"...
by GannonFan
Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 555
Views: 14851

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

We have two presidents right now, both setting policy on things like funding for UKR, the border, abortion. I don’t think this what the founders envisioned. https://twitter.com/foxnews/status/1778800348330692837?s=46&t=ascmQ1_jzEznLLEdWL4H3w Eh, it's not that crazy nor unprecedented, even for t...
by GannonFan
Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:44 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden’s Scorecard
Replies: 1678
Views: 95842

Re: Biden’s Scorecard

2000 years of entrenched bias, especially by major institutions like the Catholic Church (and I say that as a currently practicing Roman Catholic) are difficult to overcome. And heck, we're really progressive in this country in this regard - in many parts of the world Vatican 2 never happened and t...
by GannonFan
Fri Apr 12, 2024 6:51 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden’s Scorecard
Replies: 1678
Views: 95842

Re: Biden’s Scorecard

Antisemitism , pure and simple. Two of the major religions of the world, Islam and Christianity, have fanned, if not outright advocated, antisemitism for the past two millenniums. Heck, the Catholic Church only stopped blaming the Jews for killing Christ back with Vatican 2 in the 60's. Couple all ...
by GannonFan
Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:51 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump vs. Biden Part 2
Replies: 555
Views: 14851

Re: Trump vs. Biden Part 2

And in other news, inflation remains high and is increasing, all but ruling out any chance of a rate reduction this summer and actually increasing the likelihood that the Fed will have to raise rates again, not lower them. Some are predicting we'll see 8% before this thing is through. So much for th...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden’s Scorecard
Replies: 1678
Views: 95842

Re: Biden’s Scorecard

Antisemitism, pure and simple. Two of the major religions of the world, Islam and Christianity, have fanned, if not outright advocated, antisemitism for the past two millenniums. Heck, the Catholic Church only stopped blaming the Jews for killing Christ back with Vatican 2 in the 60's. Couple all t...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden’s Scorecard
Replies: 1678
Views: 95842

Re: Biden’s Scorecard

In Israel's defense, most of the world was already against them anyway. Antisemitism isn't a new thing, vociferous criticism of Israel isn't a new thing, and much of the world was pretty quiet after 10/7, and when speaking up, many said Israel had it coming. A lot of the college protests against Is...
by GannonFan
Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Biden’s Scorecard
Replies: 1678
Views: 95842

Re: Biden’s Scorecard

https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/th...eak-softly-and The Biden Doctrine: Speak Loudly and Carry a Limp Stick ERICK-WOODS ERICKSON (excerpts below) I want to begin this week with the Israeli situation as word comes the IDF has pulled back from its “active invasion” phase. Israel is one of a growing...