Is there real hope that we have seen the last of.... transformative? re-imagine? collaborative ( the EU likes to pretend that if you are "collaborative" enough, you can dispense with such frills as actual voting); decolonize; public-private partnership (aka fascism); resilience; and "partner" as a verb?
But you go to jail if you burn a rainbow flag, and a judge just said that it was racist to burn and israeli flag, so I guess it's just okay to make fun of the President. When he wants to stop the burning of the American Flag, it's just our country and all.
The point is that no one should be jailed for burning a rainbow flag, or be penalized for burning an Israeli flag (unless it belonged to someone else). Burning the American flag is protected free speech, and Trump is wrong on this.
I gave a hillbilly elegy for the dreams of my father, but it was not my first rodeo in the village that it takes to find yourself becoming a noble vessel for a higher loyalty. Who knew that it would all be trashed by a hustler from Queens wielding something called the art of the deal!
"In English, it directs the Attorney General to prosecute, to the fullest extent possible, existing laws related to flag burning when combined with other crimes “unrelated to expression,” and only where it would be consistent with the First Amendment."
In other words, it was just a nice sentiment, properly decrying flag burning, that only told the AG to uphold the existing laws and also, mind the Constitution. But because the media framed it as some kind of dark, authoritiarian, unconstitutional overreach, even many conservatives ran with that— without checking."
According to Jeff Childers, an attorney that writes Substack, Coffee and Covid.
The "Summer of Love" vis a vie 2020 didn't happen this time because.... USAID money was taken away.
They no longer have vast funding to disrupt the people they're stealing money from in order to subvert the will of the people -with money taken from those people. Despicable.
A: push an issue that should have been pushed so that a discussion happens where NO flag is "sacred" and
B: This will deliver thousands of hours of footage of flag burning Democrats that can then be used in campaign ads showing them as "the people who hate America".
Watch how this plays out. Trump is always angling at making the Democrat Party shoot themselves in the foot and look like utter assholes.
Where was Matt's article about hate crimes for LGBT flags? It's only conservatives that are expected to play by the rules. I agree there should be no laws on flag burning, but his silence until now was deafening. Playing the yokel that didn't really know what was happening over queer flags feels disingenuous.
So, how stupid are you feeling today after having actually read the president’s EO? For wordsmiths you must be embarrassed. The president won this wordplay. Your haughty laughter and inability to explain your position yesterday during your podcast was telling. You just kept laughing at anyone who didn’t accept that the issue was over, it had been adjudicated. I know as lefties you are under pressure to treat the president as an idiot and you haven’t been able to do that lately. So you jumped on this without doing your due diligence. Now you just look stupid. Last night I had a much better discussion with a lawyer on a podcast. Reading the EO out loud and looking at the Supreme Court’s decision was very enlightening. You should do it.
I am surprised at the ignorance of Kirn regarding the solid data by Jonathan Haidt that rates "sacredness" as a basic tenet of conservatives -while fairness and caring are the two pillars of liberals on any issue. Wit this framing he could better make his argument here but....
Regarding your discussion on political books, I used to work for the Maricopa County Library District, one of the largest in the country. I worked at a large regional library, and we always wound up with dozens of extra political books. I don't know whether the selectors were simply incompetent, or were being pressured from above, but dozens of copies of EVERY title (whether penned by a Democrat or a Republican) wound up being stacked above the shelves in the back, cataloged as "In Storage," until they were withdrawn, and donated to our Friends of the Library group. The 3 to 5 copies put into circulation just weren't all that popular.
I agree with Walt that most of the words lack synonyms, but I think "slight" and "faux pas" pretty much capture "microaggression."
I like the direct word "insult"
Is there real hope that we have seen the last of.... transformative? re-imagine? collaborative ( the EU likes to pretend that if you are "collaborative" enough, you can dispense with such frills as actual voting); decolonize; public-private partnership (aka fascism); resilience; and "partner" as a verb?
I doubt it; they'll just come up with new terms.
They can't help themselves.
But you go to jail if you burn a rainbow flag, and a judge just said that it was racist to burn and israeli flag, so I guess it's just okay to make fun of the President. When he wants to stop the burning of the American Flag, it's just our country and all.
The point is that no one should be jailed for burning a rainbow flag, or be penalized for burning an Israeli flag (unless it belonged to someone else). Burning the American flag is protected free speech, and Trump is wrong on this.
I gave a hillbilly elegy for the dreams of my father, but it was not my first rodeo in the village that it takes to find yourself becoming a noble vessel for a higher loyalty. Who knew that it would all be trashed by a hustler from Queens wielding something called the art of the deal!
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"In English, it directs the Attorney General to prosecute, to the fullest extent possible, existing laws related to flag burning when combined with other crimes “unrelated to expression,” and only where it would be consistent with the First Amendment."
In other words, it was just a nice sentiment, properly decrying flag burning, that only told the AG to uphold the existing laws and also, mind the Constitution. But because the media framed it as some kind of dark, authoritiarian, unconstitutional overreach, even many conservatives ran with that— without checking."
According to Jeff Childers, an attorney that writes Substack, Coffee and Covid.
The "Summer of Love" vis a vie 2020 didn't happen this time because.... USAID money was taken away.
They no longer have vast funding to disrupt the people they're stealing money from in order to subvert the will of the people -with money taken from those people. Despicable.
I swear this is just another way to
A: push an issue that should have been pushed so that a discussion happens where NO flag is "sacred" and
B: This will deliver thousands of hours of footage of flag burning Democrats that can then be used in campaign ads showing them as "the people who hate America".
Watch how this plays out. Trump is always angling at making the Democrat Party shoot themselves in the foot and look like utter assholes.
The giant fee to politicians for a book? It’s called money laundering.
It takes a village to achieve the higher calling of becoming filled with the audacity of hope in the room where it happened in 107 days?
Did we miss the beginning of this recording? Seemed to start abruptly. I missed my “I’m Matt Taibbi, and I’m Walter Kirn.” My world is off kilter now!
Mine too!
My suspicion is pols are having their campaigns buy out the first runs of the books then sending to donors
Where was Matt's article about hate crimes for LGBT flags? It's only conservatives that are expected to play by the rules. I agree there should be no laws on flag burning, but his silence until now was deafening. Playing the yokel that didn't really know what was happening over queer flags feels disingenuous.
So, how stupid are you feeling today after having actually read the president’s EO? For wordsmiths you must be embarrassed. The president won this wordplay. Your haughty laughter and inability to explain your position yesterday during your podcast was telling. You just kept laughing at anyone who didn’t accept that the issue was over, it had been adjudicated. I know as lefties you are under pressure to treat the president as an idiot and you haven’t been able to do that lately. So you jumped on this without doing your due diligence. Now you just look stupid. Last night I had a much better discussion with a lawyer on a podcast. Reading the EO out loud and looking at the Supreme Court’s decision was very enlightening. You should do it.
I am surprised at the ignorance of Kirn regarding the solid data by Jonathan Haidt that rates "sacredness" as a basic tenet of conservatives -while fairness and caring are the two pillars of liberals on any issue. Wit this framing he could better make his argument here but....
For your amusement, here is a custom chatbot to remove all the "bad words" identified by Third Wave. https://poe.com/3rdWayWordCleaner
Enjoy!
Regarding your discussion on political books, I used to work for the Maricopa County Library District, one of the largest in the country. I worked at a large regional library, and we always wound up with dozens of extra political books. I don't know whether the selectors were simply incompetent, or were being pressured from above, but dozens of copies of EVERY title (whether penned by a Democrat or a Republican) wound up being stacked above the shelves in the back, cataloged as "In Storage," until they were withdrawn, and donated to our Friends of the Library group. The 3 to 5 copies put into circulation just weren't all that popular.
Missed the opening! “How you doing, Walter?”