America is such an incredible nation, even the poorest people are overfed and obese, and the people who whine the loudest about the country refuse to leave.
I'm in print in The New York Times today: "I'm Gay, Not Queer. It Matters."
So many gay (and bisexual and transgender) people agree with me, but we have felt it nearly impossible to speak up without being shouted down. But the tides are now starting to turn. I'm very grateful.
Congressional ethics is a joke. They have so much dirt on members of Congress, and they do nothing. There is even a slush fund they use to pay people off with your tax dollars. This is part of why the system is so broken. They’re sitting on reports, and if someone steps out of line, isn’t it ironic how they leak them, threaten to leak them, or time it for right after Election Day?
As you can see, there is a serious problem up here, largely surrounding sexual misconduct. It pisses me off because while some of us are actually working and busting our asses, these clowns are sexually harassing their own staff, doing illegal crap, insider trading etc. It sets a terrible precedent for the entire institution.
I would kick every single one of you out if I could, but I can’t because the votes aren’t there. The one thing I can do is call it out on here so people know and push to ensure there is no insider trading for any of you.
Stop being predatory freaks and get OUT of office. YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE. This behavior is reprehensible and a poor reflection on the Republican Party, and I will not tolerate this type of moral rot in my own party. NOR should the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Have you noticed that liberal justices suddenly call unborn babies ‘people with full rights’ the moment the topic changes from abortion to immigration?
American citizens are the product of centuries of patriots, pioneers, and visionaries who fought and died to create the most prosperous nation in world history. But if American citizenship belongs to any foreign national who crosses over our borders and gives birth to a child, then the very concept of citizenship means nothing.
Today's court rulings are clarifying for American voters.
There is no "conservative" Supreme Court.
There is no Republican-led Congress.
There really is no GOP.
America is actually a banana republic.
Run by a uniparty that can't be voted out of office.
Dark times ahead.
@amuse@JohnnoFox Adds up just fine to me. My family experienced a similar nightmare from a vengeful former nanny. Still makes me want to throw up, just recalling it.
Islamophobia is a made up term that uses the West's suicidal empathy to shut off its survival instinct. If a religion seeks to eradicate your heritage, culture, society, civilization, and religion, then it is perfectly RATIONAL to be phobic of its intrusion into your societies.
There are far more Muslims, Arabs, and Africans in the world than there are whites and Christians.
It is not racist for whites and Christians to want to preserve ourselves and the West
It is *extremely* racist to tell us that we should not want that
My dude, stop.
It isn't "2 billion Muslims" that is being blamed.
It is ISLAM.
Islam itself. It is a creed. It believes things and teaches things.
And many of these things are evil.
If a self-described Christian launches into a campaign of mass murder, claiming he is following the teachings of Christianity, people can and will say "That's not loving one's neighbor. That's not in line with the teachings of Christ."
But when a Communist launches into a campaign of mass murder, claiming he is following the teachings of Marx, people will just nod and say "Yes, that's right. Marx does want to murder the bourgeoisie in a bloody revolution. That is what he teaches."
And when a Muslim goes on a campaign of mass murder, claiming he is following the teachings of Islam, people rightly also say "Yes, that's right. Muhammed does actually command killing the kaffir in blood jihad. That is what he teaches."
What the rest of the world sees is
• Muslims who do the evil stuff, which is entirely consistent with their faith (the ones you call "extremists")
• Muslims who don't do it themselves but support it (which appears to be the vast majority of the 2 billion Muslims)
• Muslims who don't like the evil stuff in Islam, but appear to simply be hypocritical Muslims who in fact reject any parts of Islam they don't like
That is, almost everyone in the world agrees that what "the extreme Islamists" are doing is genuine Islam, whether they are for it or against it.
I think it is very much real Islam, which is why Islam needs to be kept out of any countries which it hasn't already invaded and rooted out of any it has but hasn't devoured.
Muslims who want to disavow the worst parts of Islam, like you apparently, are still a danger because they BRING IN ISLAM.
And Islam leads to all the bad stuff you disavow.
They fact that you are a Muslim and ALSO disavow the worst parts of Islam is a property of YOU, not a property of ISLAM.
Just as there are professing Communists who wouldn't hurt a fly. If such personally harmless Communists nevertheless spread Communism, before long hundreds of millions of flies do get hurt.
So even your sanitized version of Islam is a danger.
And all that assumes you are honest about your own beliefs — which one wishes in charity to assume, but since one tenet of Islam is the moral goodness of lying about Islam to further the cause of Islam, one cannot even be sure you aren't running a stealthy justification for the kind of Islam you denounce, working to spread Islam by falsely convincing as many people as you can that any bad Islamic things "wasn't real Islam."
When a Communist tells us that the horrors of Communism "wasn't real Communism", we aren't inclined to think he is being particularly honest.
@ReviewsPossum After a pretty rigorous grad school course in Marxism-Leninism in the late sixties (same curriculum as U of Moscow, only they took it over eight semesters, we took it in two), my conclusion was that Marxism is the opiate of intellectuals.
My daughter's friend in grad school, upon being asked by a member of her dissertation committee why she didn't include a Marxist perspective. "I grew up in the Soviet Union. I don't practice recreational Marxism."