I never asked Comey for Personal Loyalty. I hardly even knew this guy. Just another of his many lies. His “memos” are self serving and FAKE!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018
Comey throws AG Lynch “under the bus!” Why can’t we all find out what happened on the tarmac in the back of the plane with Wild Bill and Lynch? Was she promised a Supreme Court seat, or AG, in order to lay off Hillary. No golf and grandkids talk (give us all a break)!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018
The big questions in Comey’s badly reviewed book aren’t answered like, how come he gave up Classified Information (jail), why did he lie to Congress (jail), why did the DNC refuse to give Server to the FBI (why didn’t they TAKE it), why the phony memos, McCabe’s $700,000 & more?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018
Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other words, he was making decisions based on the fact that he thought she was going to win, and he wanted a job. Slimeball!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2018
1. "Wild Bill" — is that a new nickname? I don't remember seeing that one before.
2. I see he's now spelling "slimeball" as one word. I assume he did not read my post commenting on his 2-word spelling the other day: "I'm utterly certain the correct spelling is 'slimeball,' although forevermore I will pause before writing 'slimeball' and think of Trump and feel that it would be an allusion to Trump to write 'slime ball.'"
3. "... Comey... how come he..." How Comey. How Comey of Comey, how come he...?
4. I love the rhetorical technique — so Twitter — of inserting a second, more cynical voice in paretheses: "how come he gave up Classified Information (jail), why did he lie to Congress (jail)...." Trump keeps it simple but also trusts the reader to understand the extreme compression. We get that "(jail)" is a second, more devilish Trump, heckling. It's like he's his own Silk.
5. These tweets are well-timed to force the Sunday shows to take notice and to make it hard for them to keep up (especially since so much of the time that would have been devoted to Comey had to be reapportioned to the Syria story).
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 332 of 332Blogger The Toothless Revolutionary said...
This is fucked up. It's an FDR that's needed, not some right-wing American fascist applying the same fraudulent tricks set to an American tune.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day and Squeamish occasionally gets something right. As here when he says "This is fucked up"
It really is, Squeamish. You've identified yourself as a progressive/fascist (you seem to agree they are the same thing) and yet you complain when someone brings fascism to America. I would think you would be happy.
It's a puzzler.
Not that I think that what President Trump is doing bears any relation to fascism or progressivism. Just that you seem to think so and I do not understand your lack of joy.
John Henry
buwaya said...
The Chinese, Confucian view, which more succinctly expresses the essence of conservatism, makes all virtue personal. This is correct, there is no "civic virtue" independent of personal virtue.
How is that working out in practice? Current Chinese culture is a parasitic culture, dependent on the West for their current financial position, their primary contribution having been restricted to providing massive sources of cheap labor. And this leaves aside its totalitarian nature. There is nothing admirable here, yet you imply the opposite.
As they say in the classics:
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
He immediately comes across as...
"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are." Nicolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
I'm happy to discuss reality with an actual success and investor like Michael instead of with a phony bullshit artist who mooches off his wife for all financial guidance like the lunatic Full Mooch.
If Moon can't defend what buwaya or anyone else is saying then it's more succinct just to say that instead of pathetically swiping at the messenger.
Michael K said...
Meanwhile, they are closing in on Loretta Lynch.
I read the original "bombshell" (I forget who the original twitterer was but it wasn't the self-promoting tracy) but looks too conspiratorial even for me.
However, Loretta is feeling the heat - within the last couple of hours, she released a statement to the Associated Press which appears to be her attempt to torch Comey - I guess the softball interview with Lester Holt wasn't working for her.
That was easy, as usual.Sucker!
Ritmo runs his keyboard as a salve to his pitiful life.
Nothing will happen other than typing nonsense.
(you seem to agree they are the same thing)
"Seem to..."
"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are." Nicolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
You "seem to" agree that pornstar Stormy Daniels has got the better of your savior Trump.
a progressive/fascist...
If you believe that Mt. Rushmore commemorate Teddy Roosevelt and his cousin Franklin were fascists why not explain how this is the case. Especially since the latter went to war crushing actual fascists like Mussolini and his buddy in the fascist Nazi regime, Twitler. I mean, Hitler. "Twitler" is his modern-day reincarnation in the Oval Office pushing buttons angrily on his communication device at 4 in the morning.
Current Chinese culture is a parasitic culture, dependent on the West for their current financial position,
I think he was referring to the "Tiger Mom" focus on education. I do think that is admirable although a bit overdone.
The communist government like all communist/Socialist governments is incapable to innovation.
The Chinese have been "The Jews of Asia" for a thousand years.
buwaya said...
But you are collapsing. It is a cultural collapse, it is accelerating, and I don't think it can be stopped. It is completely obvious, blatantly obvious. Everything is simply becoming dumber by the year.
Every parent I know says the same thing about the public education system. At some point in the future there will be a preference cascade among parents who will fight back against a mostly childless secular clergy that wants to force their will on those who procreate.
You can avoid this, as individuals, but not as a collective.
That really is what the current schism is now. The left wants to drag everyone else down into poverty with it. Some of us want to remain free.
No honor among thieves.
Lynch vs Comey.
And Comey vs McCabe
With Obama, I can see Trump pardoning him if any dirt can stick to him. The use of a fake email address to Hillary was a big one, along with his statement he knew nothing about the server. And this FISA debacle is smelling more and more.
Goofy says:
I'm happy to discuss reality with an actual success and investor like Michael
Yeah, discuss your belief of million dollar credit card cash advance to buy a home. Still laughing about that one.
LOL
That was easy, as usual.Sucker!
Easier than getting you to vote for Trump? SUCKER!
Hey, if you want hard go try getting your wife to stop rolling her eyes at you. It sounds like you'd have a more difficult time with than getting a camel through the eye of a needle.
SUCKER!!!
China has a lot more than cheap labor now days. Lots of Chinese entrepreneurs and stem graduates. Taiwan and Singapore are ethnic Chinese and have moved beyond the cheap labor.
China has huge challenges, but a lot of advantages. Education is highly prized.
Yeah, discuss your belief of million dollar credit card cash advance to buy a home.
Never said that, but you did get deleted by Althouse.
Still laughing about that one.
Like a loony in a psych ward. Maniacally, to yourself. Alone.
LOL
Wife "rolling eyes at Moon" on floor laughing ass off. ROFLMAO!!!!
Hey Impotent "Revolutionary"
Still laughing about your comment comparing yours and Ingas anus.
Not exactly your best shot.
Agree with Buwaya on the us educational system. He probably understates the problem.
If paying attention to/responding to Moon is what makes them a sucker then his wife must be the ultimate sucker.
(At least when she's not rolling her eyes at him).
SUCKER!!!
The Chinese have had a very, very long run.
The old (historians) joke goes that India has no history, while China has too much of it.
Confucius pre-existed just about every Greek philosopher, and nearly every (speculative) author of the Old Testament - that is, he was alive, probably when the Bible had just begun to be written down. In all that time his works and schools have been perennials (other than when the Qin Emperor ordered books burned and scholars buried).
In all that time, other than, possibly, during the height of the Roman Empire (50BC-400AD) and after, maybe, 1600 or 1700 AD, China was the most advanced, civilized place on Earth, even in times of collapse, civil war and conquest. Even its troubles were titanic. The Roman Empire collapsed once; China collapsed seven or eight times, depending on how you count. When Europeans started to mess with China in the 19th century it was run by a foreign dynasty nearing its end state.
The West European explosion of 1500-20th century was unprecedented and put the "West" on top. But this is ending. The Chinese may well be back on top soon enough. I don't think it will be such a good thing, but vae victis.
Modern academic leftists would hate your comments regarding the superiority of western culture btw. They hate it and teach hate of it. Thats one reason the era of western supremacy is ending. These people teach the teachers that teach your kids, and such stuff has its effect. Year after year, they are less bold, less self confident, more diffident.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
Yeah, discuss your belief of million dollar credit card cash advance to buy a home.
Never said that,
Liar. You claimed that the housing crash caused by people using credit card down payment for homes. Exposed your ignorance.
Still laughing about your comment comparing yours and Ingas anus.
Well, as usual, you misunderstood and misquoted that one, too. Punctuation not your strong suit, either.
But I have no doubt that you will look in whatever dark places help nurture your conspiratorial "thinking."
As Bill Maher said about Glenn Blech, he's getting ready to play with his poop. And so are you.
You really miss it when the commenters told you and I to get a room, don't you? Probably the most attention you got all year.
SUCKER!!!!!
“Bruce, your link is bad.”
Blame Blogger which objected to “http” in the HTML address. This should work:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/16/strzok-page-texts-reveal-personal-relationship-between-fbi-official-and-judge-recused-from-flynn-case.html
Goofy says:
Punctuation not your strong suit, either.
Good one. like when you missused "your" trying to get a comment from me. A simple trick I used on you four times before you caught on.
SAD!
"Never said that,"
Liar. You claimed that the housing crash caused by people using credit card down payment for homes. Exposed your ignorance.
For a million dollars? And what's a "credit card down payment?" You think credit companies put "money down" on their customers?
What are your credit limits? Do you even have any credit?
You sound more and more like an angry retard with every keystroke. Just completely not worth a dime.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
I mean, Hitler. "Twitler" is his modern-day reincarnation in the Oval Office pushing buttons angrily on his communication device at 4 in the morning.
This is what passes for intelligent discussion on the left these days.
After calling Trump Hitler they want to make sure only the government has guns.
Mueller is out looking for Russian collusion in Stormy's vagina. Good work if you can get it.
FDR is the new hero now. FDR's internment camps will come in handy after they repeal the second amendment right?
You are just really stupid. Inga level stupid.
Ray said...
China has a lot more than cheap labor now days.
Yes it has a totalitarian government protecting its domestic industries from competition. And it has a complete disregard for intellectual property rights creating a shameless, lawless culture that is built around intellectual theft. The only thing they have excelled at for the last two millennia is reproduction. The Japanese have run rings around them for centuries.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
Still laughing about your comment comparing yours and Ingas anus.
Well, as usual, you misunderstood and misquoted that one, too.
Really? Please simply explain your "mine and Ingas anus" comment so I might understand it
Good one. like when you missused "your" trying to get a comment from me. A simple trick I used on you four times before you caught on.
So not knowing how to spell ("missused") is a "trick". Oh, you're so clever!
Now go install that toilet, tunnel and bridges guy!
Get on it! Get out of the bar and go fuck up that installation, you drunk contractor!
Here you go Bruce Hayden. Don’t use “ Just use a =
buwaya said...
The West European explosion of 1500-20th century was unprecedented and put the "West" on top. But this is ending. The Chinese may well be back on top soon enough.
Both the Greeks and the Romans are the West. The Greeks contributed more to human culture during their relatively brief ascendency than the Chinese have done over the entire existence of their corrupt sclerotic culture.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
Still laughing about your comment comparing yours and Ingas anus.
Well, as usual, you misunderstood and misquoted that one, too. Punctuation not your strong suit, either.
TTR isn't stupid. He is just misunderstood!
Please tell us how climate data from before the human race existed doesn't count again. The devil put that there to mislead us and shake our belief in the faith!
buwaya said...
Modern academic leftists would hate your comments regarding the superiority of western culture btw. They hate it and teach hate of it.
This is the usual anti-West BS. China is viewed as an appalling totalitarian state by academics, as it is by most thinking people.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
Yeah, discuss your belief of million dollar credit card cash advance to buy a home.
Never said that, but you did get deleted by Althouse.
You said it. And I did get deleted by Althouse, when I copied and pasted one of your your hysterical all caps tantrums.
Please simply explain your "mine and Ingas anus" comment so I might understand it...
Lol.
Well, yes, I know you are preoccupied with mine and Inga's anuses but that's kind of the point already. So if you misunderstand things that persistently it's not like there's any explanation that will correct you. That's why you went into contracting.
Speaking of which, what happened to all those angry resentful comments about "college assholes" etc.? "No degree/college assholes." You really do change your ideas of what constitutes an insult as readily as you get called out on not understanding what you're saying.
Maybe it had to do with the way they drove up property values.
Hey - it's time for your high school reunion. Go and tell all the fellow drop-outs (and college grads) how wonderful a drunk contractor you are. Installing toilets and buying property. WINNING!
You drink at the oddest times. How strong a marriage do you have with the way you're drinking yourself to drunk comments posted on a Sunday night? Don't you have any home life? Anything?
I mean, just cause you saw wood and install toilets all day long doesn't mean you can't have a constructive hobby.
Most people seem to hate their contractors. I listen to you and understand why. You're almost aggressively ignorant. Belligerently ignorant.
Go look those words up. Maybe you can figure them out with a T-square and a level and tape measurer. LOL!!!!
“The Chinese may well be back on top soon enough.”
Affection for the Chinese, derision for Americans.
buwaya said...
Modern academic leftists would hate your comments regarding the superiority of western culture btw. They hate it and teach hate of it.
This is the usual anti-West BS. China is viewed as an appalling totalitarian state by academics, as it is by most thinking people.
Achilles said...
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
Still laughing about your comment comparing yours and Ingas anus.
Well, as usual, you misunderstood and misquoted that one, too. Punctuation not your strong suit, either.
TTR isn't stupid. He is just misunderstood!
Please tell us how climate data from before the human race existed doesn't count again. The devil put that there to mislead us and shake our belief in the faith!
4/15/18, 7:59 PM
Uh-oh! Goofy gonna rant holler and name call for awhile, then cry and run away.
Please tell us how climate data from before the human race existed doesn't count again.
I never said ice core data don't count. That's something that you and the denialists do.
The relevant conversation ended, though. It didn't involve you two sloppy second-enders.
It's like a porn scene ends with the director saying, "CUT! THat's a wrap!" And then someone returns 20 minutes later to collect belongings/tidy up and find Achilles and FullMoon jacking each other off to their sweet memories of what the actors and set staff already completed and left behind.
Kind of pathetic, guys. But it does help if you change the subject, don't it? Not like either of you two brothers-in-arms can contribute to the actual substantive threads.
Good night. Have a fun time jacking each other off to Trump Twitler Tweets!
Lol. Really some kind of pathetic.
Kudos to Toothless Revolutionary today, he understands that conservatism in our Republic can't be static, but must change with the times. If you're waiting for Manafort and Flynn to be released, for Comey and Lynch to be jailed and the whole Clinton-prog-criminal conspiracy to be exposed and punished, then you're in the camp of those who hope against hope that the phoenix will rise again.
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...
Ray said...
China has a lot more than cheap labor now days.
Yes it has a totalitarian government protecting its domestic industries from competition. And it has a complete disregard for intellectual property rights creating a shameless, lawless culture that is built around intellectual theft. The only thing they have excelled at for the last two millennia is reproduction. The Japanese have run rings around them for centuries.
This is a surprisingly lucid and intelligent comment. What prompts this line of discussion?
I would also like to hear what Ray thinks China has right now.
China is heading for a demographic cliff of epic proportions. It is going to get old soon and it has a baby boomer problem that makes ours look tame.
Plus all of the smart kids want to leave and come to the US. They like it better here. None of them want to go back and help them take over the world.
yes, that one worked.
Contreras “never should have taken the case,” diGenova told Fox News. He noted the timing of Contreras' recusal, suggesting he made the move just as the Strzok-Page texts surfaced in the press.
I think there will be a hanging party, maybe a month before the election.
Too bad the GOP Congress screwed up with that porkfest.
ARM, you are still saying things about the Chinese communist government. The Chinese are fleeing that regime and I see lots of them. They do quite well on their own.
Still laughing about your comment comparing yours and Ingas anus.
I would never compare. Just because you're intimately interested in both doesn't mean any comparison extends beyond that fact.
Now I guess that's something else for you and Achilles to jack each other off to!
Hahaha. LOSER.
Goofy Revolutionary.
College dropout. No degree. No job. No property. No women.
A fake. A phony.
Envious, jealous, hateful, poor innocent fifty five year old child.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
Please tell us how climate data from before the human race existed doesn't count again.
I never said ice core data don't count. That's something that you and the denialists do.
The relevant conversation ended, though. It didn't involve you two sloppy second-enders.
Yeah. It ended when I called your argument creationist level stupid and you whigged out.
Just like you are now.
FullMoon - here's a question:
Do you howl when you come in Achilles' mouth or when he cums in your asshole?
That's the really important thing to figure out here.
Other than that, you're providing a great contribution to the thread, wouldn't you say?
Getting Ann to roll her eyes at you must remind you of when your wife rolls her eyes at you.
HOWL!!!!! HOWL!!!!
Yeah. It ended when I called your argument creationist level stupid and you whigged out.
Just like you are now.
Yawn.
We're talking about today's thread. Why do you have to change the subject all the time?
Oh, that's right. For attention and reflected self-importance.
Blogger The Toothless Revolutionary said...
If you believe that Mt. Rushmore commemorate Teddy Roosevelt and his cousin Franklin were fascists why not explain how this is the case.
I've asked you perhaps a dozen times for your views on the difference between progressivism and fascism (Or, more properly, Fascism)
I keep hearing crickets.
Teddy Roosevelt predated Fascism by 3-4 years so never knew about it. But how did his political philosophy differ from Mussolini's? I suspect he would have embraced it had he known.
FDR, in the 20s and 30's publicly lauded Mussolini as doing amazing things for Italy. He was also quite impressed with Herr Hitler for a while.
You care to try again?
I get the impression that you can't make an argument about the differences between progressivism and fascism because you have no more idea than my goat what fascism is. And I don't even have a goat.
I suspect that you are one of the people Orwell talked about:
"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable"
-Politics and the English Language, 1946
You really should learn what it means, squeamish.
John Henry
Affection for the Chinese?
Well, I respect them, I always have, and so should you.
My first girlfriend was Chinese, the guy who tried and failed to teach me electric guitar was Chinese, and nearly all my college buddies were Chinese. Its tough to compete with them in any objective intellectual contest. If you manage that, you have achieved something.
Your genuinely best colleges are filled with them, MIT and Caltech, and the next several dozen down the list. And, note, they are no dumber in China.
Give them just another decade and I think we may all have, also, reason to fear them.
Vae victis
How long before Goofy becomes violent?
Two here to challenge his climate change and alternative power mania.I am here to feed his real estate envy. Revolutionary having a rough time tonight
Easily excitable, aren't you? Jumping up and down like a fucking banshee.
Let's meet in real life so I can take that sledgehammer to your balls that you want so much.
It will expedite your reassignment surgery by quite a bit. Just think how much closer you'll be to getting your very own fish taco.
LOL!
Teddy Roosevelt predated Fascism by 3-4 years so never knew about it.
He seems to have been well-read enough to know what it would have meant for a Roman to depict a bunch of sticks bundled together and still called himself a "progressive." So regardless of an ideology's name, it seems you want to call him a proto-fascist. You're ducking from that, squeamish.
I suspect that you are one of the people Orwell talked about:
"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable"
I suspect that you are someone Orwell might have talked about:
"The word Progressivism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable' to whomever this John Henry nobody fool is."
Signed,
Not John Henry
Blogger Michael K said...
The Chinese have been "The Jews of Asia" for a thousand years.
Not quite right, Michael. Thomas Sowell in one of his Migrations and Cultures books discusses this in depth. It is not "Chinese" in general, it is mostly Chinese from a particular province. I forget which one. These are the ones who migrate and make huge impacts on economic life wherever they go.
Not disagreeing with you, just trying to refine your point.
"You could take two Chinese and put them in a crater on the far side of the moon. In a week or so they would be trading Rocks with each other. In a month or so both would be wealthy."
Heinlein in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. (required reading whenever I taught Econ 101 at SNHU)
John Henry
Gem after gem of rational discourse from literary savant:
Ask yourself why an actual straight male who has something he wishes he were doing OTHER than "anal, sucking dick, and hating women" would do that.
You can't? Yeah, me neither.
That's the kind of wackjob we're dealing with here.
4/7/18, 9:37 PM
How long before Goofy becomes violent?
Fantasize away, sloppy seconds guy. You bore me.
You mistake responses with interest. SAD!!!!
"real estate envy" Lol.
It's true that nobody likes contractors, isn't it? What's up with that?
All the insults you do of everyone - people who either DO attend or DON'T GRADUATE college! Hey, that's a lot of people. Like pretty much everyone either attends or doesn't graduate college.
You really must hate the world. Have a drink and get her to roll her eyes at you and forget about it.
“Affection for the Chinese?”
I’m fonder of Americans. Lots of wonderful Chinese Americans. Nothing wrong with being of Chinese heritage, a lot wrong with Communist China.
Ask yourself why someone would quote someone that they can't stop harassing. That's what you should ask yourself.
Probably because his wife won't stop rolling her eyes at him.
It's nice that they produced an entire movie about FullMoon's life story.
Why do some Chinese women come here to have their babies? So they can have American citizenship.
Inga said: ... "And you Michael K, just cannot stop yourself from being a condescending jerk. I understand far more than you do apparently or you wouldn’t cling to your ridiculous conspiracy theories. You may be well versed in all things medical, but politically, not so much."
Wow!
Now I am completely convinced that you are both an idiot and delusional. Ritmo is your perfect companion. You two should try to hook up. It (sickening as it seems) may do you both some good.
The risk is that Ritmo is not of consenting age. That's good for you. He won't know the difference.
Lots of wonderful Chinese Americans. Nothing wrong with being of Chinese heritage, a lot wrong with Communist China.
Republicans want America to be more like Communist China.
You know. Because "hard work" and respect for the leader and all.
Goofy says without irony:
All the insults you do of everyone -
Goofy boy, you are a loser. You pretend to be something you are not. You rant rave and insult everyone here. I play you like the fish you are. You amuse me. You have no degree. You own no property. You have no real skills. These are facts. You recognize your failure and resent those who enjoy success, however moderate.
BTW thinking of selling my home in 94116. Ocean view. Interested? Credit card advance for down payment?
Now in walks Francisco for sloppy thirds.
What excites a guy like you, IRL, Francisco?
You sound even more Ted Bundy than Full Moon. But at least you put your fantasies out there, on the web.
FullMoon we just have to guess at what he's into. But he gives it all away pretty easily.
buwaya said...
Your genuinely best colleges are filled with them
There are a billion Chinese, the smartest ones generally leave China. Of course there will be a lot of smart Chinese over here, we only see the extreme part of one tail of the bell curve. That is a long, long way from there being a Chinese superman who is going to take over the world.
A large fraction of Chinese women who come to live in the West marry westerners. So even given the improbable possibility that the Chinese have a genetic advantage over the West, the West is siphoning off those genes in a remarkably selective manner.
Republicans like Tom Friedman, writing in the NYT, want America to be more like China.
--alternate universe TTR
@the loony psychologist...
Now I am completely convinced that you and Full Moon are idiots and delusional. Full Moon is your perfect companion. You two should try to hook up. It (sickening as it seems) may do you both some good.
You amuse me.
And you amuse no one.
You play no one and all that you call "facts" are just bullshit to turn your own fact-less self on.
Listen, just because you're a loser doesn't mean you don't own property. Lots of losers own property. It's funny that you promote this as your greatest claim to fame, though. There must be a reason why it's so important for you to tell everyone here how important you think you are, though. It's like no one would notice (here or IRL) if you didn't say it. Is your opinion of yourself really that fragile? Maybe it is.
In any event, you never answered my question about why everyone seems to hate their contractor. Is it because they lie so much? Would you lie as much in your work as you do here on this blog site?
How many times have you been sued for a shoddy contracting job? Why not just be honest and have some integrity? And if you hate contracting so much just go into real estate. Or is that another industry flooded with too many college grads to avoid you feeling insecure around them?
If you had liquid capital maybe going to a therapist might help. Just don't go to Francisco D., though. He's a sociopath.
Blogger The Toothless Revolutionary said...
He seems to have been well-read enough to know what it would have meant for a Roman to depict a bunch of sticks bundled together
You mean a "fasces"? Like we see on our US coins? I am sure he did know what they were. (In WWI the Brits had tanks that carried fasces of sticks to bridge trenches. Are you saying these were fascist tanks? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/434878907739578338/)
Sure, not only was Roosevelt well read, he was well written on a number of subjects. Very interesting to read. For example his 4 vol history of the opening of the American west.) His ideology would have meshed seamlessly with Mussolini's. Have you read either? I've read both plus bios of both. I'll be happy to discuss it anytime.
Not sure I would have ever come up with "proto-fascist" on my own but, yeah, he was.
Still waiting for your explanation of the differences between progressive and Fascist ideology.
Not holding my breath.
John Henry
Tom Freidman can fuck off.
Inga
"He and the right have been pushing this notion of “cultural collapse”. What baloney, you simply don’t like that the lily white culture is no longer dominant. We are a multicultural nation, don’t like it? You’re free to relocate also."
You are so incredibly stupid, Inga. You don't seem to know what is meant by Culture. It is not a racial thing. You have been misled and poorly educated.
But to your wrong interpretation it could be noted that white supremacy is not congruent with your observation that the "white culture is no longer dominant. ". Pick only one.
Most overseas Chinese are either Cantonese or Fujian/Fukien.
An early and large wave of "coolie" laborers (indentured labor) from the 19th century were Fujian, so these are predominant in SE Asia.
But in the 20th century most have been Cantonese (Guangdong) as the route out of China was through Hong Kong.
Note that South China has considerable ethnic "structure" and there are many ethnic groups there that aren't obvious to an outsider, even if they fall into some general language category like Fujian or Cantonese.
Not sure I would have ever come up with "proto-fascist" on my own but, yeah, he was.
Then you answer your own question. Not sure why you keep harassing me about it. You see T.R. as a proto-fascist and I don't. A non-fascist would be satisfied to agree to disagree with someone but I guess you're just too much into badgering people about their uncontroversial lack of dislike for another Mount Rushmore commemorate (and well-rated president) to comprehend that your opinion is somehow not the only one worth considering.
Still waiting for your explanation of the differences between progressive and Fascist ideology.
Not holding my breath.
Damn. The part where you do it long enough to pass out is where things stop being so boring.
Read all you want. I don't see T.R. as someone wanting people to subsume their identity into that of a corporatist state. He busted the trusts rather than putting them to the use of the state. If you want to argue against the force of history, go harass a university professor, or a few thousand of them. Not me. You're the one with the strange minority opinion that you demand everyone agree with and account for. But sure, there's nothing fascist about a personality trait like that - I'm sure.
Excuse me, missy. Was Goofy who mentioned your anus in a comment to me last week. Ask him about it.
I don't remember this comment. It sounds like it was more important to you than it was to me. Perhaps there's a reason why.
I realize you're not getting any from your wife but really, don't do so much to keep advertising that fact. Just accept her eye rolls, have a drink and do something other than post online. It's not healthy.
Lots of wonderful Chinese Americans. Nothing wrong with being of Chinese heritage, a lot wrong with Communist China.
Republicans want America to be more like Communist China.
You know. Because "hard work" and respect for the leader and all.
Why am I not surprised that Ritmo does not like hard work ?
Squeamish,
Here are a few of TR's books written before our entry into WWI and during our involvement.
Tell me how the strong nationalist views expressed in them are non-fascist. You would need to read them first. TR probably did more than any other single American, including Wilson, to drag us kicking and screaming into WWI. A propagandist hawk extraordinaire.
America and the World War. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1915.
Fear God and Take Your Own Part. New York: George H. Dornan Company. 1916.
A Book Lover's Holidays in the Open. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1916.
The Foes of Our Own Household. New York: George H. Dornan Company. 1917.
National Strength and International Duty. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1917.
The Great Adventure: Present-Day Studies in American Nationalism. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1918.
Running off to my wife's Hawaiian hula thing.
For some weird reason a lot of the ladies are Chinese.
What thats about I don't know.
We could do a lot worse than if hula ate either yoga or rap.
buwaya said...
yoga or rap.
The Hindus and African Americans have both contributed more to contemporary world culture than the Chinese. Even the fucking Koreans have K-pop.
Here you go Michael. I didn’t say it was based solely on race, you moron.
“What Is A Cultural Collapse?
Cultural collapse is the decline, decay, or disappearance of a native population’s rituals, habits, interpersonal communication, relationships, art, and language. It coincides with a relative decline of population compared to outside groups. National identity and group identification will be lost while revisionist history will be applied to demonize or find fault with the native population. Cultural collapse is not to be confused with economic or state collapse. A nation that suffers from a cultural collapse can still be economically productive and have a working government.”
And it’s bullshit.
TTR: Claim about Republicans
Me: Except the opposite us true, See, e.g. Tom Friedman
TTR: "Fuck Tom Friedman "
Me: Well argued, sport.
TTR: Sputter and rage.
Me: You are unserious.
Teddy Roosevelt predated Fascism by 3-4 years so never knew about it. But how did his political philosophy differ from Mussolini's? I suspect he would have embraced it had he known.
FDR, in the 20s and 30's publicly lauded Mussolini as doing amazing things for Italy. He was also quite impressed with Herr Hitler for a while.
Mussolini was very well liked in Progressive circles in the 20s and 30s.
Pat Buchanan's book, "The Unnecessary Wars," has quite a bit about Mussolini and has some good points.
Buchanan thinks it was a serious mistake for the Brits to go after Il Duce over Abyssinia.
They had done some rather violent colonizing and The Boer War pretty much zeroed out their moral authority.
Mussolini did not like Hitler and, had he stayed at a distance, he probably would have died in bed popular with his country men.
The New Deal was pretty much Fascism with less drama.
Read "The Forgotten Man" sometime.
Yes, because non-fascists really list 6 books on a pseudonymous blog comments section demanding them as a reading assignment so that an argument that only that party to the conversation wanted to engage.
Nationalism is not exactly the same thing as fascism. If that's not a good enough explanation for you, not sure what would be. Again, try being less fascist and agree to disagree - if that's not too taxing on your supposedly non-fascist self.
I don't have to like everything about T.R. I'm sure being a strong-willed bull moose led him to a couple positions that we thankfully avoided then and are probably better off for having avoided in hindsight. Demanding that someone be either perfect or evil is a pretty ridiculous stance for anyone claiming to respect history to take, actually. It's what's called "splitting" among psychologists and is a hallmark feature of several personality disorders.
But yes on the balance I liked much of what he was about and don't think he was as analogous to Mussolini as you do. He could have been less imperialistic, but that was not as intellectually respectable or easily defended or mainstream a position to take back then. He had respect for the land he conserved and the philosophy of the natives that embraced it and proving oneself in the wild and invited Booker T Washington to the White House even if his strong opinions on empire and some "natural order" to conquest and warfare were a hell of a lot less savory to me.
So, what of it? Again, if you're into identifying historical saints vs. sinners then you have a much bigger project to prove than anything involving just T.R. alone.
What has collapsed are the civic institutions. The people are not important. The institutions are important.
Americans are eating the seed corn. The harvest will be wanting in short order.
Mussolini was very well liked in Progressive circles in the 20s and 30s.
Pat Buchanan's book...
Lol.
Nothing funnier than invoking Hitler-lover Pat Buchanan to ratify a progressive pedigree to Mussolini.
"The Forgotten Man" is nothing more than a bunch of poorly argued propaganda.
If you don't like FDR then the answer is to avoid economic depressions. But Republicans can't seem to do that and even just last week Michael K. was arguing with a real economist on this blog that economics was not a real field of study with any answers to offer those deciding policy.
The eugenicists, progressive Democrats the lot, were statist collectivists. They were racist to their respective cores.
Roosevelt. Margaret Sanger.
Goofy reasonably says:
In any event, you never answered my question about why everyone seems to hate their contractor. Is it because they lie so much? Would you lie as much in your work as you do here on this blog site?
How many times have you been sued for a shoddy contracting job? Why not just be honest and have some integrity? And if you hate contracting so much just go into real estate. Or is that another industry flooded with too many college grads to avoid you feeling insecure around them?
If you had liquid capital maybe going to a therapist might help. Just don't go to Francisco D., though. He's a sociopath.
4/15/18, 8:35 PM
ROFLMAO
Literate, constuctive and imaginative, Goofy. C-
What are you all serving at your Comey-watching parties?
FDR was great. He lengthened and deepened the Great Depression. Funny how Leftist Collectivists love a guy who caused misery but consolidated power.
Funny in that it reveals the true goal of Leftist Collectivists.
“What are you all serving at your Comey-watching parties?”
Buttered popcorn for us common folk and caviar for the pretentious assholes like Michael.
"Republicans want America to be more like Communist China.
You know. Because "hard work" and respect for the leader and all."
Why am I not surprised that Ritmo does not like hard work ?
Because you're stupid enough to confuse that euphemism (in quotation marks) with the actual slavery that it stands for in the PRC.
So admit that you're pro-slavery, then.
Even if you don't believe that the Chinese labor situation is slavery obviously it's hard for them to get as much as their labor does if they hadn't started out in such a shittily backward economic state to begin with. I guess there's always something to be said for progress but that doesn't mean envying the very primitive starting point that they began with following the Great Leap Forward.
You guys really do seem to have greater admiration the more primitive a society is. Just rough it in the woods and get it out of your system.
TTR comes dangerously close to calling China a shithole country.
FDR was great. He lengthened and deepened the Great Depression. Funny how Leftist Collectivists love a guy who caused misery but consolidated power.
Calvin Coolidge was great. He created the idea conditions for the Great Depression. Funny how Rightist Collectivists love a guy who caused misery but didn't exercise any power to prevent it.
Inga
Sorry, you have not the slightest idea of what I am writing about. It is not in Wiki. It will take you years of reading and listening to get it.
Ritmo would make a good farmer if he can't find another job.
Spreading bullshit seems to suit him fine.
“Sorry, you have not the slightest idea of what I am writing about. It is not in Wiki. It will take you years of reading and listening to get it.”
Blah, blah, blah you pretentious condescending prick.
Herbert Hoover was great. He lengthened and deepened the Great Depression. Funny how Rightist Individualists love a guy who couldn't rally the nation and caused misery while squandering his power.
"Calvin Coolidge was great. He created the idea conditions for the Great Depression."
Idiots repeat what they hear at leftist meeting halls and union halls. Read a fucking book, idiot.
Hoover's activist government actually gave us the Depression.
Coolidge can be blamed for giving us Hoover, I suppose.
Woody Woo -- another progressive racist
Spreading bullshit seems to suit him fine.
You can't point to anything I said that was bullshit but that's because you're a fascist lunatic who lets everyone else do your arguing for you. Usually in some book. If you could think for yourself then you'd have something more intelligent to say than how Nixon's downfall was the result of a coup, or somesuch other right-wing nonsense. I guess if my comments were as embarrassing as yours I'd decline to say anything also and simply drop/list a book as a footnote instead.
So I guess not all ignoramuses are illiterate. Some are just fucking parrots. Michael want a cracker?
Michael K said...
The New Deal was pretty much Fascism
Anti-Americanism.
"Calvin Coolidge was great. He created the idea conditions for the Great Depression."
Idiots repeat what they hear at leftist meeting halls and union halls. Read a fucking book, idiot.
I've read a few. None agree with your contention that de-regulated financial industries leads to less depressions than those given to us by FDR and Keynes, etc.
Coolidge - awesome and country did great
Hoover - idiot who meddled and made the Depression from a recession
FDR - malicious centralizer of government power who deepened and worsened the Depression for political gain
Blogger The Toothless Revolutionary said...
Yes, because non-fascists really list 6 books on a pseudonymous blog comments
Speak for yourself, Squeamish. I've been posting in various online fora since 1989. I've been signing my real name, John Henry, in pretty much every post since then. Once in a while I forget to add my sig here but you should be able to figure out who I am.
My cell is 787-550-9650, my email is johnfajardohenry@gmail.com, my address is PO Box 1128 Fajardo PR 00738, my physical address is B-3 Urb Las Gaviotas Fajardo PR. My website is www.smedworks.com There's an about me page including a link to my CV there.
That's all been pretty public and easy to find online for the past 30 years.
Anything else you want to know about me just ask. I am hardly anonymous or pseudonymous.
I have no complaint about people posting pseudonymously. I can understand why some people might feel a need to. I am thankful I never have. I also never have to worry about being doxxed.
I do object to people who do not use a consistent identity, pretending they are different people on different days. It seems extremely dishonest.
OTOH, I hardly need to know your name to call you out as a fool.
John Henry
FDR - malicious centralizer of government power who deepened and worsened the Depression for political gain
Tell us what you really think: He made the presidency strong and modern enough to lead us away from a future run by the Nazis whom you'd have preferred to have taken us over after they finished with Europe.
“Read a fucking book, idiot.”
Tell that to Trump.
Chuck said: ... "What are you all serving at your Comey-watching parties?"
Narcissism dip with bullshit chips and fried Ritmo brains.
I was thinking off a side order of dried up Inga twat, but I can't really stomach that.
I don't think anyone remotely sane has for quite a while.
less/fewer
Your opinions are your own, TTR. So while they are not wrong, per se , they are unmoored and ill-founded. They reflect your own unique pettiness.
But, no, we cannot honestly call them bull shit.
TMI
OTOH, I hardly need to know your name to call you out as a fool.
Yep. Name calling, refusing to address the substance of the comments and listing more personal details than you'd post on a dating website show everyone just how serious and mentally healthy you are, John.
Well, I thought we were talking about T.R. and fascism but it seems you have issues that go way beyond that. I'll leave you to them.
I have no complaint about people posting pseudonymously. I can understand why some people might feel a need to.
Because mob behavior and mob reaction to every opinion and person is always fair and extremely rational. Or something. Sure.
“Narcissism dip with bullshit chips and fried Ritmo brains.
I was thinking off a side order of dried up Inga twat, but I can't really stomach that.”
He’s a Hannibal Lecter wanna be. I knew it.
TTR calls his own comments substantive.
And they say irony is dead.
John Henry, sheesh, that was dumb.
Sockpuppeteers do not like people criticizing sockpuppets.
Can a person overdose on irony?
Francisco really is a disgusting and disturbing one.
Don't any of these wingers have anything remotely approximating a healthy psychology going for them?
It appears not.
“Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices … Without question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of Fascism.”
Mussolini speaking of FDR 1936
“It’s the cleanest, neatest, most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I’ve ever seen. It makes me envious,” adding that, “I find Italy doing many of the things which seem to me necessary … Mussolini certainly has the same people opposed to him as FDR has.”
Rexford Tugwell, 1935 or so.
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New York Times reporter Anne O’Hare McCormick wrote fawningly in the aftermath of Roosevelt’s inauguration that Washington, D.C., is “strangely reminiscent of Rome in the first weeks after the march of the Blackshirts, of Moscow at the beginning of the Five-Year Plan … America today literally asks for orders.” The Roosevelt administration, she added, “envisages a federation of industry, labor and government after the fashion of the corporative State as it exists in Italy.”
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The Nazi Party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, "stressed 'Roosevelt's adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies,' praising the president's style of leadership as being compatible with Hitler's own dictatorial Führerprinzip" (p. 190).
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America's ambassador to Italy, Richard Washburn Child, was so taken with the Duce that he initiated and played a major role in producing Mussolini's Autobiography, which was published in 1928 by Charles Scribner's Sons. It appeared that same year in serial form in The Saturday Evening Post.
In his foreword to the work, the envoy praised Mussolini as “both wise and humane,” as an administrator of “superstatesmanship,” and as a political leader of “permanent greatness.” In Fascist Italy, wrote Child, “unexpected joy is found in the leadership of a Mussolini … It is absurd to say that Italy groans under discipline. Italy chortles with it! It is victory!”
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President Franklin Roosevelt expressed admiration for the Italian leader, and sent him cordial letters. In June 1933, Roosevelt praised Mussolini in a letter to an American envoy: “... I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble.” In another letter a few weeks later, the President wrote: “I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with the admirable Italian gentleman.”
Want more? You have but to ask.
John Henry
And now TTR wants to talk about healthy psychologies?
Wow. I may need to see a specialist. Is there a pill to remove irony from the blood stream?
Birkel has no outside interests, this Henry guy posts his entire life story with contact details as a way to aggressively prove his... I don't know - honesty? and Francisco the psychologist (or so he says) posts revolting lurid quips about how he'd like to go about cannabalizing other commenters. It's like an entire medley of extreme psychological dystopia and dysphoria. And all of them Trump defenders, it would seem. I guess a mentally unhealthy leader for a mentally unhealthy group of followers. How gross. I think this is the first time I might leave a thread just out of sheer disgust and pity and revulsion. It's like walking in on an old friend that you always thought weird but never actually suspected of bestiality. Just very gross. You're on your own, guys.
“And now TTR wants to talk about healthy psychologies?
Wow. I may need to see a specialist. Is there a pill to remove irony from the blood stream?”
Birkel go see Hannibal, er, I mean Francisco, he’ll fix you right up, with fava beans and Chianti.
Blogger Inga said...
John Henry, sheesh, that was dumb.
Why?
Hasn't been a problem yet. It's early days of course, only 30 years. Who knows what might happen if I keep doing it long enough?
Not something that keeps me up at night.
I fully understand why you and Squeamish would not want to be identified with the foolishness you post here. Here's a secret, Inga, Squeamish: You are not anonymous. You could be tracked down in a couple hours using only public info if anyone wanted to take the trouble.
John Henry
My interest here is mockery.
I have no doubt Francisco D would make a fine host or guest and my organs would be safe.
Why must the Leftist Collectivists be so abysmal at logic and insults? I have a garden gnome that is more capable on both accounts.
So mockery is all I have for you.
The best part of these threads watching Inga and ARM and Ritmo lose their shit is they know their side is going down. Comey will be trying to sell Hillary and Obama out soon so he can get probation.
Comey is clearly a piece of shit. He has admitted to breaking the law on multiple occasions and has admitted to conspiring to break the law on multiple occasions. Then there is the obvious perjury while under oath. I wonder if he is goingto take his professor friend down with him. It is awesome watching leftists take his side.
The montages of leftists calling for Comey to resign in October are classic when compared to their newfound respect of him now.
It just makes it plainly obvious than none of you have a single principle you care about except power over other people.
You are soulless losers.
The Toothless Revolutionary said...
It's like walking in on an old friend that you always thought weird but never actually suspected of bestiality. Just very gross. You're on your own, guys.
Excellent. Your stupidity was boring. You haven't engaged with an honest argument in months. Just stupid projections of your own mental pathology onto people you disagreed with.
I will miss the entertainment though getting you all wound up and sputtering like an idiot. Go ask Al Gore where all the global warming is for me.
Quick thoughts China
Positives:
- aggressive entrepreneurs
- new Silk Road opens up Central Asia and Middle East
- willing to copy and improve
- private industry
- exports to Africa
- lots of Stem graduates
- realistic world view
- automating
- infrastructure
- astronauts
- returning graduates from us
- protectionism
- force foreign companies to share technology
- focus on education
- well run police / surveillance abilities/ state (means low chance of revolution)
- low chance of military coup
- modernizing military tactics and technology
- imported entire industries
Negatives:
- corruption
- environmental damage
- demographic
- man / woman imbalance
- oligarchy in government and industry (Princelings)
- lack of rule by law
- little value added to products
- low trust society
- central planning
- debt
- no freedom of press
- great firewall of China
- short term focus society
- quality
- government owned industries
- population expectations
It’s amazing how far China has gone since the gang of 4.
Go ask Al Gore where all the global warming is for me.
Nonsense. There is no such thing as global warming. It is the biggest fraud perpetuated on scientific knowledge since the germ theory of disease! (Trump's a vaccine denialist so I'm assuming Achilles is, too).
Here's a question for amateur pharmacologist roid rager and pseudo-scientist wanna-be Achilles: What would global temperatures be with no CO2 in the atmosphere?
I read the NYT's very long teabagging review of Comey and his book, and I read Trump's tweets. Trump makes more sense.
I see I didn't miss much last night.
Inga and Ritmo seem to be working on a duet.
If I didn't have a life, I'd love to sift through and apply a good Althouse-style fisking to all of TTR's comments. His word-salad hides a deeply flawed understanding of - well, everything. Quite frankly, once you push through all of the try-hard insults he levels, it's pretty clear that he's the kind of person who believes he's much smarter than he really is, and this leads him to make so many errors that picking out just one doesn't come close to fully addressing the substance (or lack thereof) he puts forth in any particular comment.
Well, except for the times that he just spews bile. No need to correct that, just hope that he's got someone nearby to wipe the spittle from his chins.
Michael K said...
I see I didn't miss much last night.
Inga and Ritmo seem to be working on a duet.
To be fair Inga said her dick was bigger than mine. I don't remember her having ever seen it, but the 70s were a bit of a blur. For all I know hers is bigger. But in my defense I've been told mine is particularly handsome and gives good service when properly motivated.
I'm sure, if TTRs "girlfriends" could talk they'd have nice things to say about his equipment.
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