SectionC3 Posted yesterday at 08:56 PM Posted yesterday at 08:56 PM 8 hours ago, boyst said: it's hard to rationalize any direction he is going at the moment. his first term started all over the road and got course corrected over time. we shall see where it goes from here but he is strengthening the federal government in many cases and his first term appointees to the court haven't been all that strong. i am hoping we get a chance to get Clarence THomas replaced under a majority of the senate. Not libertarian. Or traditional Republican. 1
boyst Posted yesterday at 09:07 PM Posted yesterday at 09:07 PM 10 minutes ago, SectionC3 said: Not libertarian. Or traditional Republican. Agreed. Entirely bizarre that people are being duped into it on both sides. Suddenly Democrats hate their principles and Republicans love crumbling the foundation of their beliefs. 1
Joe Ferguson forever Posted yesterday at 09:20 PM Posted yesterday at 09:20 PM 40 minutes ago, JFKjr said: Ya gotta love the Harvard ethos: Why do you suppose Harvard has a massive endowment? Serious question.
nedboy7 Posted yesterday at 09:23 PM Posted yesterday at 09:23 PM 43 minutes ago, JFKjr said: Ya gotta love the Harvard ethos: I think this proves that all college professors are corrupt and dishonest. It’s time to have the clergy teach about science and health and…..
BillsFanNC Posted yesterday at 09:36 PM Posted yesterday at 09:36 PM 2 hours ago, Taro T said: Well, guess he showed you. He gave it the laugh emoji instead of the x. 🙄 That's his other go to when he's painted himself into another corner. Quack remember when you said that by all accounts Biden speaks better than he did decades ago?
ScotSHO Posted yesterday at 09:37 PM Posted yesterday at 09:37 PM 16 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said: Why do you suppose Harvard has a massive endowment? Serious question. CIA training grounds?
JFKjr Posted yesterday at 09:43 PM Posted yesterday at 09:43 PM 17 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said: Why do you suppose Harvard has a massive endowment? Serious question. Their graduates make up 'the elites' of our society and funding comes from their well-heeled personal donations as well as their companies and foundations. Why are you so hell-bent on defending Harvard? Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China-Related Cases
Homelander Posted yesterday at 10:04 PM Posted yesterday at 10:04 PM MAGA outrage over people defending Harvard is as predictable as it is misinformed. They’re missing the point entirely - this isn’t about elite institutions getting a free pass; it’s about defending the rule of law and the Constitution. Let’s be real: America didn’t become a global tech powerhouse by accident or by isolating itself. It stayed on top by importing the best and brightest from around the world. That’s not a bug it’s the feature that built Silicon Valley. Foreign-born talent makes up around 60% of the tech workforce in Silicon Valley. They’re not just contributing they’re driving the innovation engine that keeps the US ahead of every other country. That’s why the San Francisco Bay Area alone draws more venture capital than all of Europe combined by a factor of five. If Trump keeps this up and countries start keeping their top minds at home or worse, if we start shutting ours out - that money will follow the talent elsewhere. It’s that simple. 1
Joe Ferguson forever Posted yesterday at 10:17 PM Posted yesterday at 10:17 PM 26 minutes ago, JFKjr said: Their graduates make up 'the elites' of our society and funding comes from their well-heeled personal donations as well as their companies and foundations. Why are you so hell-bent on defending Harvard? Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China-Related Cases which S African Billionaire studied at Penn as a Foreign Student? Because you don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. If the Chinese are benefitting from some arrangement with Harvard, stop it. But removing some of the most talented people in the world as a matter of policy is stupid. It's also political. It requires me to defend elitism while MAGAs can yell "trade schools" at me. Being elite is what every kid should aspire to. It's what makes us stronger and globally competitive. This is all about populism at the expense of knowledge and respect for it.
ComradeKayAdams Posted yesterday at 10:19 PM Posted yesterday at 10:19 PM 7 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said: Did we reach white men? Nope. As I said many are angry and resentful for financial reasons for which there isn't an easy answer other than lying to them. sadly, for the country, one is a growing demographic and one is shrinking. Conversely, how do you think affluent, college educated voters are reacting to attacks on Harvard, NPR/PBS? I suppose, by the numbers, it's better to appeal to the former than the latter... Reaching these men is super easy: offer a candidate who connects with them on their economic anxieties. Have a policy platform centered on economic issues like universal health care, living wages, collective bargaining, the ACTUAL return of quality domestic manufacturing jobs, and defrayed costs for colleges and trade schools. The modern Democratic Party had a candidate once upon a time who did this. They called his ardent male supporters “Bernie Bros.” What happened to such a salable candidate?? Recall my previous post in this thread regarding Citizens United v. FEC… I see the attacks on Harvard as an extension of the aforementioned. If you don’t offer these people pragmatic solutions to their real-life problems, they’ll just turn to various alternative “policies” that amount to nothing more than “libtard-pwning” virtue-signaling. The Harvard situation also neatly ties in with my Alexis de Toqueville reference in that same previous post. Anti-intellectualism and xenophobia are deeply ingrained American traditions, and we’re seeing the practical damage done when MAGA’s formulate STEM research policies without understanding how modern STEM research operates. The Harvard anti-Semitism accusations, of course, are a continuation of these dullardly MAGA dullards dullarding about…Zionist propaganda is effective on people unable to distinguish between Hamas and Palestine, or to parse the nuanced etymology/phraseology of “intifada” and “from the river to the sea.”
Joe Ferguson forever Posted yesterday at 10:28 PM Posted yesterday at 10:28 PM 3 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said: Reaching these men is super easy: offer a candidate who connects with them on their economic anxieties. Have a policy platform centered on economic issues like universal health care, living wages, collective bargaining, the ACTUAL return of quality domestic manufacturing jobs, and defrayed costs for colleges and trade schools. The modern Democratic Party had a candidate once upon a time who did this. They called his ardent male supporters “Bernie Bros.” What happened to such a salable candidate?? Recall my previous post in this thread regarding Citizens United v. FEC… I see the attacks on Harvard as an extension of the aforementioned. If you don’t offer these people pragmatic solutions to their real-life problems, they’ll just turn to various alternative “policies” that amount to nothing more than “libtard-pwning” virtue-signaling. The Harvard situation also neatly ties in with my Alexis de Toqueville reference in that same previous post. Anti-intellectualism and xenophobia are deeply ingrained American traditions, and we’re seeing the practical damage done when MAGA’s formulate STEM research policies without understanding how modern STEM research operates. The Harvard anti-Semitism accusations, of course, are a continuation of these dullardly MAGA dullards dullarding about…Zionist propaganda is effective on people unable to distinguish between Hamas and Palestine, or to parse the nuanced etymology/phraseology of “intifada” and “from the river to the sea.” yes....well, sort of. reaching voting age males that are foundering, necessarily involves lying. For too many, the die is cast. Universal healthcare is a pipe dream that I still sometimes have. There are unfilled factory jobs to spare. It wasn't the R's that proposed free 2 year college nor that offered education much of any a leg up. nevermind, nihilism rules tonight. The news is so sad. cynical and sad...
JFKjr Posted yesterday at 11:07 PM Posted yesterday at 11:07 PM 1 hour ago, Homelander said: MAGA outrage over people defending Harvard is as predictable as it is misinformed. They’re missing the point entirely - this isn’t about elite institutions getting a free pass; it’s about defending the rule of law and the Constitution. I'm not outraged, I'm just not buying your prefabricated talking points. It's amusing to watch you defend Harvard.
Homelander Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago 20 minutes ago, JFKjr said: I'm not outraged, I'm just not buying your prefabricated talking points. It's amusing to watch you defend Harvard. You’re free to disagree, but dismissing facts as “prefabricated talking points” doesn’t make your argument stronger it just sidesteps having one. And for the record, it’s not about “defending Harvard.” It’s about defending principles - like equal application of the law and valuing the global talent that helps power the US economy.
JFKjr Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago 4 minutes ago, Homelander said: You’re free to disagree, but dismissing facts as “prefabricated talking points” doesn’t make your argument stronger it just sidesteps having one. And for the record, it’s not about “defending Harvard.” It’s about defending principles - like equal application of the law and valuing the global talent that helps power the US economy. Libnuts defending 'constitutional principles' is precisely how you know they're (again) using prefabricated talking points.
Homelander Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago 3 minutes ago, JFKjr said: Libnuts defending 'constitutional principles' is precisely how you know they're (again) using prefabricated talking points. It’s wild how fast your respect for the law vanishes the second it doesn’t serve your team. But please, go on about how you’re the free thinker while parroting whatever narrative some Russian-funded rage farm dropped in your feed this week.
Big Blitz Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago On 5/26/2025 at 4:14 PM, Big Blitz said: Just let that sink in a minute. Unprecedented!!! Musk doesn’t operate in the shadows. He knew what he was getting into and has owned it. He’s the most transparent billionaire to ever influence your government. Can’t say that about the Super PAC money and the Soros family. Hahahahahahahahaha
JFKjr Posted 8 hours ago Posted 8 hours ago 14 hours ago, Homelander said: It’s wild how fast your respect for the law vanishes the second it doesn’t serve your team. But please, go on about how you’re the free thinker while parroting whatever narrative some Russian-funded rage farm dropped in your feed this week. Where am I arguing against 'respect for the law?' I don't have a team. I'm definitely against YOUR team though.
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