Let's have a conversation

[M14 Shooter]

Bush eventually nominated Samuel A. Alito Jr.

And we are all SO much the better for it.

 

[konradv]

One of your Murder Cult minions.

MAGA lies.

 

[konradv]

Really?

No one does disrespect like Donny Diapers. Get real, shortbus!

 

[Billiejeens]

 

[Ghost of a Rider]

Valid, but see, my opinions come with receipts.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-university-college.html

President Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Department of Education: What it means for campus safety & the Clery Act

President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, raising questions about federal education programs, student aid, and civil rights enforcement. This blog explores the implications for the Clery Act, campus safety, and the broader education landscape. Clery...

www.clerycenter.org

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/03/23/maga-is-already-rewiring-american-education

You're kidding, right? The Department of Education is useless and a waste of federal dollars and always has been. American kids are the most ignorant kids in the world and the rest of the world knows this. Too many don't know basic geography or history.

I'm sorry but the DoE hasn't accomplished a damn thing since its inception. Our rankings have steadily declined throughout the whole of the department's existence.

Explain.

I've already given an example: transgenderism. Transgenderism is a thing and that has always been the case. But the movement has inflated and conflated the idea beyond all comprehension to the point that people are willing to kill for it.

Colleges and universities are not the only ones responsible of course but they are known to be hotbeds of liberal ideas and it is known that many have incorporated transgender studies in their gender and sociology courses, among others.

You can't seem to converse without making your arguments personal to me, with the 'you people' horseshit. Grow up, you don't ******* know me.

What are you talking about? That's the first time I've said anything like that in our exchange.

"Fascism" has become the mot du jour for the last few years and it's been used so often and in so many contexts that, like "racism", it has lost all meaning.

Getting an education to improve oneself, thus improving the odds of a better career, life, etc. is perfectly valid.

Of course it is. But does it make one better than those with no college education? No. But some educated think they are. I've seen it on this forum many times. I saw once where an educated person, while conversing with an uneducated person, referred to educated people as "your betters". As in: "You should learn to listen to your betters", or words to that effect.

Seems perfectly valid.

But not necessarily true.

Opinion.

Which part?

I never gave any ***** about that.

I know you don't which is why I brought it up.

So, it's a mere annoyance that doesn't affect you personally,

Did I say it did?

but you feel it threatens your ideologies, traditional norms, and 'activism'.

Opinion. You have no idea what my ideologies, traditional norms, and 'activism' are or even that I feel it threatens them. Grow up, you don't ******* know me.

 

[Ghost of a Rider]

Really?

Holding previous elective office doesn't qualify one for higher elective office? A funny and not surprisingly stupid posture you're adopting there.

You tell me; you're the one who compared Harris' and Vance's resumes even though Vance also held a higher elective office.

Harris had the education but she was not fit for the job. Don't pretend you don't know that we've had many politicians throughout our history who were qualified but nevertheless did a horrible job.

 

[ChristisKing]

MAGA uses divisive language, then blames the left.

 

[konradv]

Green Day- American Idiot

 

[candycorn]

You tell me; you're the one who compared Harris' and Vance's resumes even though Vance also held a higher elective office.

He hadn’t completed his one and only term in the first elective office ever...no comparison between the two. Harris is his superior in every way.

Harris had the education but she was not fit for the job.

Education and experience is what usually “fits” one for the job. She had both.

Don't pretend you don't know that we've had many politicians throughout our history who were qualified but nevertheless did a horrible job.

Ahh you see that is the thing you guys always try to do.

You insert your opinon for fact and hope nobody notices.

What Kirk said was that she was a DEI hire. Not specifically that she did a good job or bad job (although he probably tried the same nonsense you just did at another time)...he said “hire”.

Again....if you strip away gender and skin color and look at the qualifications, you would agree that Harris is Vance’s superior in every way. That is just the fact of the matter. But since she’s female and black...you can’t bring yourself to admit it.

 

[Ghost of a Rider]

He hadn’t completed his one and only term in the first elective office ever...no comparison between the two. Harris is his superior in every way.

Irrelevant. You were the one who set the terms and your terms only stipulated "higher elective office". And you know full well the only reason he didn't finish his term is because he was - wait for it - chosen to be VP.

Education and experience is what usually “fits” one for the job. She had both.

Yet she did a horrible job.

You keep harping about her qualifications but qualifications are no indication that the person has the will, ethics or competence to do the job ably. Harris did not do a good job. Not because she wasn't qualified but because - as I said before - she didn't care.

Ahh you see that is the thing you guys always try to do.

You insert your opinon for fact and hope nobody notices.

So you're not aware that we've had qualified but otherwise ineffective or even corrupt politicians?

What Kirk said was that she was a DEI hire. Not specifically that she did a good job or bad job (although he probably tried the same nonsense you just did at another time)...he said “hire”.

That's Kirk. All I said was that Biden set out to choose a woman of color and he did. As I said, call it DEI or don't, but these are stupid reasons to hire someone and she ended up doing a horrible job.

Again....if you strip away gender and skin color and look at the qualifications, you would agree that Harris is Vance’s superior in every way. That is just the fact of the matter. But since she’s female and black...you can’t bring yourself to admit it.

Aaand there it is, just as I expected. The inevitable accusation of sexism and racism. I knew it would rear its ugly face eventually in spite of the fact I tried to head off this very type of self righteous, kneejerk allegation.

I don't give a shit about skin color or race. I have a black grand-niece and grand-nephew and their black father is one of the best people I know.

I had no problem with Obama's election other than that I thought he was kind of arrogant and of course our politics are different. Beyond that, I didn't give a shit. Skin color and gender are inconsequential to me and have no bearing on one's ability to do a job.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Again....if you strip away gender and skin color and look at the qualifications, you would agree that Harris is Vance’s superior in every way.

Ahh you see that is the thing you always try to do.
You insert your opinon for fact and hope nobody notices.

All you do is lie.

 

[sparky]

That doesn't mean anything.

it's far more polite than Woke Joke TT...... ~S~

 

[Dirk the Daring]

Losing an election doesn't mean you're not qualified. Your blob lost an election too...by a far greater margin than Harris in terms of popular vote.

If a white person had the same credentials Harris had, nobody would say that he wasn't qualified. Your bigotry is on full display.

First, I have never once voted for the blob and good luck finding ANY post from me on this or any other message board speaking highly of that man.

Second, YOUR OWN guy stood in-between her and the presidency not once but twice. How exactly do you reconcile that FACT with 'but her credentials'? So respectfully, bend over and shove that 'bigotry' carp up your own ash.

 

[sartre play]

Charlie Kirk is dead. That part doesn't tell you anything?




Anybody who murders somebody for simply just disagreeing with them is lower than scum.

The point is just one guy killed kirk, and at this point has not said why,
So just blaming the killing on people who voted DEM make no sense.
There has to be people like us who voted for the best person suited for the job.
So even with a lib lean on personal liberty's
And more conservatize view on many other things. My house we vote best person ( RUNNING).
Not just party. they ALL make mistakes.

 

[ChristisKing]

The point is just one guy killed kirk, and at this point has not said why,
So just blaming the killing on people who voted DEM make no sense.
There has to be people like us who voted for the best person suited for the job.
So even with a lib lean on personal liberty's
And more conservatize view on many other things. My house we vote best person ( RUNNING).
Not just party. they ALL make mistakes.

From what I've been hearing this guy was raised in a conservative family and then got sent off to college and got indoctrinated.

 

[Dirk the Daring]

And we are all SO much the better for it.

All thanks to Joe Biden.

 

[Dirk the Daring]

No one does disrespect like Donny Diapers. Get real, shortbus!

This is why we'll have any real, substantive change. At least in the near future.

 

[Billiejeens]

The point is just one guy killed kirk, and at this point has not said why,
So just blaming the killing on people who voted DEM make no sense.
There has to be people like us who voted for the best person suited for the job.
So even with a lib lean on personal liberty's
And more conservatize view on many other things. My house we vote best person ( RUNNING).
Not just party. they ALL make mistakes.

He did "say" why.

Get out of your echo chamber once in a while.

 

[Billiejeens]

From what I've been hearing this guy was raised in a conservative family and then got sent off to college and got indoctrinated.

Typical

 

[sartre play]

He did "say" why.

Get out of your echo chamber once in a while.

Maybe I missed it! could you post his actual words???