The 1950s? Please, the tax rate then on the richest Americans was around 90%, that's not quite four times the effective tax rate for the same folks now. And they're not even "the same folks"! Back then the richest Americans had no salary greater than 50 times that of the average American; now some have 400x.
The 1950s were the most awful period in American history. It was an insane dream with a smell of clean house. The commercial where a blonde woman would use the Vacuum with joy. But if you were back, you couldn't vote, you lived in slum. If you were a women, and you looked too masculine, it was lobotomy or electroshock. This period was like the song at the time. Tickling bell, innocent. But under this, it was horrible, insane, inhuman.
It's funny he should mention not being able to see Ray Romano hitting his wife on TV. You aren't able because Ray was the one being hit and shoved and called names by his wife. He even said in one episode he was sick of her hitting him all the time and she pushed him into a book case. Actual abuse!
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I don't remember women actually getting hit by their husbands on TV for comedic relief.
@nurb101 Ray's wife on "Everybody Loves Raymond" was an awful character. I like Ray Romano, but couldn't watch the show because of the wife character. She was so over the top, there was nothing to like about her, and too much to not like about her.
You wrote: "I don't remember women actually getting hit by their husbands on TV for comedic relief."
On "I Love Lucy," Desi used to put Lucy across his lap and spank her. So, not only did he physically abuse her, he also infantilized her.
@Wintermute01001 Probably if the nation-builders didn't spend so much time invading & occupying foreign nations, not only would there be a lot less bloodshed, but we would have a lot more money to spend on our domestic needs. Our country would be much better off if those nation-builders were lazy...
@darthbentley Military contractors can focus on building positive things, like a green economy. We could invest in our aging infrastructure, space exploration, wind, solar, & other renewable energy programs, etc. We can invest in our children, our schools, training medical professionals, insuring the uninsured, etc. Building tools of destruction is a terrible waste of our natl treasure & when we use them, we create enemies. Iran used to be a democracy until we dismantled it...
@1Speedra It's good to meet you too. As the GOP continues to implode, more & more Americans will turn away from the Teabirchers. Most people just don't like bullies, bigots, & intolerant assholes especially when they're fighting against their own fiscal interests in favor of the wealthy minority...
@1Speedra Someone who finally gets it? Go outside the US and you'll see just how fucking crazy you all seem. Its a common concensus outside your bass-ackwards country that the Americans are illogical warmongering homophobic nitcases.
When the stereotype of your country turns that bad, theres something wrong.
@TheRimDoctor Herbert Moon sounds like a typical Teabircher. As a Canadian, you may not be aware that most Americans have a negative view of the Teabircher movement. Don't judge us all based on the insanity of the noisiest few. There are many differing views in the US that you may not be hearing if you ingest news from media outlets that promote & regurgitate insane Libertarian/Conservative rhetoric. Canada has its share of radical right wing bigoted & intolerant extremists...
@NightriderXP1 I like you. And interestingly enough, our biggest right wing bigot is currently in office. You see, in Canada during the 1990s in the West when Canada was about to split apart we had the reform party show up. And since the West are all farmers, bigots and hicks, they became big. Official Opposition big. Scary big, given their platform of complete takedown of social policy. The Progressive Conservatives had fallen apart and had 1 seat left in HoC. Under pressure from
@NightriderXP1 ...under pressure from normal Canadians, the crazy fucking Reform Party switched to become Canadian Alliance Party. Then the Canadian Alliance Party absorbed the rest of the Progressive Conservatives, which were for 100 years either Official Opposition or In power, to create the current Conservative Party. These are not the nice, centerline PCs we once had under the similar name, no these people are Take down public healthcare Gays are bad crazy. Now we have
@NightriderXP1 ..now we have polarization of Parties, given the fall of the Liberals last election who now want to legalize marijuana and the NDP on the left. Anyways, to sum this all up, Bigots and extremists are considered illegal in Canadian elections for Hate speech reasons. But somehow they managed to weasel their way into office with Majority thanks to the Albertans. But wont enact anything too crazy because if they did, Parliament would toss them out of office. Full circle.
@TheRimDoctor You're dealing with the same insanity that arose here in the US & around the globe. Have your media outlets become the voice of the radical right wing agenda? Conservatism gobbled up almost all of the AM radio spectrum. Then it succeeded in deregulating industry allowing wealthy Conservative businessmen to consolidate & monopolize the media industry. FOX promotes the GOP agenda. CNN is trying to emulate FOX. Next they're trying to take control of the Internet...
@NightriderXP1 Whats interesting in Canada is we don't have biased News sources because no one cares. Radio talk shows aren't dictated by the personalities of the hosts, rather any issues brought up by callers. We have no reason to slander one party or another because we have confidence that Parliament, the Senate or the Governor General will stop anything unrational done by the ruling party or the Prime Minister himself. There is some guy named Ezra who hates Socialism, though.
@TheRimDoctor So what would explain your country's rapid lurch to the right? It's clear to see that the Conservative movement in the US is bound & determined to control all of our media. Once they control the media, they can silence all opposition, which is proving to be extremely successful. Bills in Congress that were recently shelved would have allowed them to shut down any web site that they didn't like. It was a major power grab that has been averted for the time being...
@NightriderXP1 I would not say its a rapid lurch to the right, but I would say the right has gone farther right. I say this because the NDP, who are so left it would make Americas head spin, have gotten official opposition with a recent landslide victory. They were typically 3rd or 4th Party (After Bloc Quebecois) but its so unexpected that they beat the allpowerful Liberals by 70 seats because they typically sat with ~30 or so for 50 years. Its thanks to our Youth that we're left
@TheRimDoctor In the US, the South is the base of the Conservative right. These were the States that seceded from the US over slavery. Even though they don't control the Senate, Conservatives hold enough power to block all legislation & appointments. They're obstructing any effort to rescue our economy. Since many Americans don't pay attention to politics, they have no idea why the economy isn't improving, so they blame the incumbents. The GOP is banking on this ignorance...
@NightriderXP1 Jack Layton was NDP leader and was charismatic, hopeful, etc. Our voters are not concerned with the economy (Canada has faired extremely well), what our voters want, and what our youth want is freedom for all and a more European society. We enjoy gloating our free healthcare and more Nature-friendly lives. Remember, The Conservatives have majority of seats, but not majority of voters. They have somewhere around 30% of the vote.
@TheRimDoctor Canada never deregulated its banking industry, so it wasn't directly affected by the gambling that took our economy to its knees. But if your Conservative leaders are looking to America for guidance, they too will deregulate your industries putting Canadians at great risk. Hopefully your voters will be able to stop this before it's enacted in Canada. Reagan started this agenda. 30 yrs of Libertarian/Conservative policies were enacted to intentionally bankrupt us.
@NightriderXP1 But Ezra Levant runs a show no one is stupid enough to watch anyways. What I find the key difference between voters in the US and Canada is that theUS appears to gobble up propaganda (Which is the only stuff that spews North, plus more or less Neutral CNN, so we make what we can of it) but Canadians don't respond to propaganda because we as a country identify it and make fun of whoever created it. We look South and wonder why you're concerned With God Guns & Gays
@TheRimDoctor The vocal Conservative religious right has no real concern about the economy. They've always fought against people who aren't like them. They would prefer to amend our constitution to strip Americans of their rights. They succeeded in adding our 18th Amendment in 1919 that banned alcohol. They're against religious freedom for non-christians, women's rights, gays, minorities, etc. They would be comfortable with the KKK. This isn't how most Americans think...
@1Speedra I think the Teabirchers are well on their way to making themselves irrelevant & a small footnote in American history. Most Americans hold an unfavorable view of them & their polls are steadily going downhill...
@gasmask4poop You seem to be ignorant that poor white people suffer from the exact same issues faced by any other race. Quit kicking the people who are suffering the most. They didn't create our major national problems. Wealthy people who gambled trillions & lost, then were bailed out, caused our fiscal problems. Are you upset that as a wealthy nation, we have so many Americans living in poverty while the 400 wealthiest Americans own more wealth than over 150 MILLION Americans?
There's no such thing as "reverse racism". It's a dumb as saying there's a profession called 'male nursing'. It's like calling all the shit thrown at men these days 'reverse sexism'. If one person holds another's ethnicity against them, it's racist. It doesn't matter what the ethnicity is of the person originating the sentiment or what the ethnicity is of the object of the slander.
pelley gave a more complete synopsis of the food stamp issue tonight. he gave the % collected by whites and the % collected by blacks THEN said, of course the population has 72% whites compared to 15%?? blacks! i'll take credit for the
@graysonTW Are you upset that as a wealthy nation, we have so many Americans living in poverty while the 400 wealthiest Americans own more wealth than over 150 MILLION Americans? Do you know that 6 members of the Walton family, the family that owns Sams & Walmart, have more wealth than the bottom 30% of the US population? Why aren't the wealthy hiring Americans & paying them living wages in order to lower food stamp usage? Poor people didn't cause the problem so quit kicking them.
Scott Pelley proclaimed tonight on the CBS evening news that "84% of the food stamps disbursed in the state of Iowa go to white people while only 9% go to blacks"!
Iowa demographics are: 91.3% white and 2.9% black. scumbag Pelley never mentioned those figures.....*snicker*
so while 91% of the population collects 84% of the stamps, less than 3% collects 9% and the other 6% collects 7% of the stamps.
these journalists?? have no scruples at all. they think we're all MORONS!
@graysonTW It sounds like Scott Pelley is trying to educate ignorant jerks that food stamps are available for everyone who needs them regardless of skin color. Those who believe that the poor in the wealthiest nation on the planet should starve or go hungry are morons. I would think that the wealth redistributed to the wealthiest affect you far more. It's mean spirited to kick people when their down. If you consider the poor your greatest threat, you're priorities are misplaced...
@NightriderXP1 ; i'm not against the poor at all. i'm against rancid, convoluted journalism. but apparently you left-wing loonies love it.
this was a classic case of spewing 1/2 of the facts. apparently you're satisified with getting 1/2 of a story. that's why you have the perception you have of the situation this country is in.
@graysonTW There wasn't anything rancid about the report you mentioned. Apparently you wanted it to claim that poor black people are lazy, blood suckers though. You're not even trying to hide your racist views. Whether you believe it or not, your enemy isn't poor black people who need food stamps to survive. The wealthy are hurting you far more than the poor ever will. I don't expect you to understand this though since you have issues with those who don't share your skin color...
Why are teabaggers so in love with Ronald Reagan? He's totally unlike them. Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times, gave amnesty to illegal aliens, tripled the debt, had Reaganomics & "trickle down" effect that didn't work, never worked & will never work, left office with the BIGGEST national debt & deficit in history & was involved in the Iran Conta scandal. Ronald Reagan may talk like a Republican but he governs like a Democrat. Ronald Reagan is a RINO
@MsLlcools Reagan governed like a Republican. Since Reagan, the GOP has been moved far to the radical right by members of the John Birch Society. Reagan implemented Libertarian economic policies that are still being used today to dismantle the govt. Reagan's Starve the Beast & Trickle Down Economics policies enrich the wealthy while attempting to dismantle safety net programs. Thanks to Reagan's policies, the gap between the wealthy minority & everyone else has never been greater.
@nightrider you know you are one of those elitist ass clowns that thinks they know whats best for everyone else just becuase your ideology works for you and helps you live with who you are. I have respect for other people and believe they should be free to make thier own choices so lets leave it at that. I will just let my vote do the talking good bye.
@commo842001 You seem to share many of the same views that I hold. Your hostility seems surprising. I highly doubt that you want to make it easier for people to buy C-4 or nuclear warheads. So the real difference is where our line in the sand starts & ends. This isn't a left or right issue. It doesn't matter which side of the political divide you align to, you can still become a victim of loose gun laws. Once you become a victim, you learn far more respect for gun legislation.
@nightrider some hunters use hollow point to cause a humane and quick death by a heart shot with a low grain load like with scout rifle or if there are hunting in areas where they do not want the bullet travelling to far beyond the target. If you knew anything about firearms you would have gathered that I was saying low velocity ammo is best for home defense and so called assault weapons are nothing more than cosmetically different than hunting firearms. I dont think you used to hunt at all.
@commo842001 You've suggested that people should be free to buy anything they want & even compared me to Hitler for not agreeing with you. Yet as we discuss this topic, even you have acknowledged that some weapons & ammo shouldn't be easy to access. You also agree that the gun show loop holes should be closed. So it's clear that you also see that there needs to be limits & laws that make it harder for some weapons to be purchased & that some shouldn't have easy access to guns.
@nightrider explosives are already tightly regulated and the only explosive thing you can get at a 7/11 is a bean burrito. Yet there are still bombings that happen or attempts that fail. Did the explosives laws stop the oklahoma city, pentagon, or unibomber attacks? Go check and see what the laws are concerning explosives before you answer.
@commo842001 That's my point. There are weapons that shouldn't be easy to obtain simply because it makes no sense. If C-4 was sold at 7-11, we'd see far more crimes committed using C-4. McVeigh made his bomb using fertilizer. But not everyone has the ability & resources to make a fertilizer bomb. Few people have the ability to built an assault rifle from scratch either. When assault weapons are easy to purchase, more people buy & use them. These aren't good hunting rifles...
@nightrider Hollow points are better at stopping an attacker and slowing down after going through the criminal. Also hollow points mushroom and are less likely to keep going so they are ideal for home defense in apartments where shoot through is a factor. Ball ammo will speed through walls and might hit someone so the best option is a shotgun or low velocity hollow point ammo. A hunting rifle uses high velocity ball ammo and is very poor for home defense. I thought you said you used to hunt?
@commo842001 You'ld never use hollow points to hunt unless you really weren't interested in the meat. They damage too much. You seem to believe that an assault weapon is going to be a good defensive weapon. A pistol would be better suited for home protection. Assault weapons are ideal for criminal use. Isn't it interesting how many well trained, well armed law enforcement officers are killed while on duty? Citizens with less training often become the victims of their own guns.
@nightrider what ever the intended function there is the reality and cars are more effectively killing more people. There are already limits and laws concerning explosives but those laws never stopped the oklahoma city bombing, the unibomber attacks, the 1970 NYC police station bombing, or the 1972 boming of the pentagon. Nobody but demolition crews and the military are allowed to legally have explosives but there are still bombings go figure.
@commo842001 If you could buy C-4 at 7-11, you would see people resolving their personal conflicts with it. Easy access to weapons makes them more likely to be used for all the wrong reasons. If people could buy nuclear weapons, then our history would be darkened by the loss of many major cities. Making deadly weapons easier to buy allows those who have short fuses & can afford them to use them. So where is your limit? What line in the sand shouldn't be being crossed???
@nightrider In my honest opinion I think gun control is just about a basic knee jerk reaction that most people have when a death occurs. People want to place the blame because it helps them to get a grip on why death occurs. I dont blame guns, cars, drugs, or even mcdonalds cheeseburgers for death. I blame people for the bad choices they make.
@commo842001 The difference between guns & knives is that you have to get close to hurt someone with a knife. You're far more likely to survive a knife injury than a bullet wound. Throw in hollow point bullets & the survival rates plummet. Do you think there's a good reason for people to be able to buy hollow points? These bullets destroy much more of the meat, so they're really not ideal for hunting. Dying from poor health choices is different than being shot by someone else.
@nightrider I am sure the intended function of automobiles was never to kill people but automobiles have killed and will kill more people than firearms in this country if you want tighter regulation on things then maybe you should call for better regulation on drivers. It does not matter what guns look like or what they were intended for they can be used to protect and much as they are used to kill. How many of those gun deaths were criminals getting what they deserved.
@commo842001 The difference between autos & guns is that 1 is designed for travel while the other is designed to kill. Is there a limit to what weapons you think citizens should be able to buy? Should citizens be able to buy RPGs, tanks, missiles, grenades, &/or nuclear weapons? Where is your limit or do you have one? A lot of people aren't criminals until they kill someone. In the heat of the moment, easy access to guns can often lead to insane decisions, quickly regretted...
@nightrider I am a freedom advocate. When one persons beliefs impede the ability of another person to live life how they choose then I say that is not freedom. I do believe they should close the gun show loophole but it should stop at that no "assault weapons ban" should ever have taken place any more than marijuana use should be against the law. People should be allowed to live thier lives on thier own terms without assholes telling them what they can and cant have. But its never enough.
@commo842001 I agree with you that the War on Drugs has never made any sense. Thanks to that unwinnable war, the US now imprisons more of its citizenry than any other country in the world. That's not something we should be proud of. We should have learned from Prohibition that the War on Drugs was a fool's errand, but sadly we don't seem to be able to learn from history. Assault weapons use has a tendency to take lives away. These guns are designed to kill humans, not game...
@nightrider I have no fear of the government but I cant just pretend that these criminals in office are looking out for us when they are getting busted left and right for corruption and foul play. What ever my thoughts are on the vietnam war they never support terrorist acts against the government. I do not support extremist groups be they far left or far right. I cannot convince a left wing liberal nut anymore than I can convince a right wing nut so talking to you makes no sense.
@commo842001 Again we agree about the Congressional clowns who have sold us out for personal profit. We seem to agree on more than you're willing to admit. But I have to wonder if you've thought it through about the 2nd Amendment. You seem to be extremely fond of guns, not for hunting, but for keeping the govt in check & defending your rights. So when do you finally decide to use your guns? How far will you allow the govt to go before you finally decide you've had enough???
@nightrider left wing militias like the weatherman are far worse than right wing militias. Bill Ayers is a terrorist plain and simple. Like I said most people are assholes that want to impose thier will and choices on everyone else. I guess calling me paranoid is respect to you this why liberals get no real respect they verbally sucker punch you in the back and tattle tale when you punch them back.
@commo842001 Do you believe pointing out an obvious fear is the same as calling someone a Nazi? You have a right to compare groups from 50 years ago with today, but you'll be hard pressed to find radical & violent left wing groups today. I don't think Bill Ayers is or ever was a threat to you. Right wing militias seem to be a dime a dozen now though, many based on pure racial hate. What did you think about the Raul & Brisenia Flores murders in Arivaca, Arizona???
@commo842001 I'm actually surprised that you considered Bill Ayers a terrorist. If you supported his 2nd Amendment rights & if you're paranoid of the govt, then it would seem that your ideology closely align with his. One man's terrorist is another man's Freedom Fighter. If I remember correctly, Bill Ayers was fighting against a war of choice that had claimed nearly 60,000 American lives. Did you support the Vietnam war???
@nightrider You say I am paranoid of the government well I served in the military for ten years and I am just smart enough to know that these people with freezers full of money and off shore accounts are not on my side. I only asked how you would have handled that situation and you assume I think the cop was in the right. You have more in common with George Bush than you think Mr. Nazi.
@commo842001 I've been respectful of you, yet you call me a Nazi? We seem to agree on a many issues, so that might make you a Nazi too. Many who have served in our military come home & join radical right wing militias. I don't think serving the country guarantees that you don't become paranoid of the govt. If you supported the OWS protesters, your response suggested just the opposite since you offered only 2 options. Allowing the protests to continue wasn't one of your options.
@nightrider bet all you want but laws do nothing stop criminals hence the term "criminals". Its a fools paradise to try to control people if they will not obey laws. That is what I wanted to show you all along you liberals want control just as much as much as conservatives. You are all control freaks playing a dangerous game with everyone elses freedom. I am pro choice and I support legal marijuana and actually care for the enviroment but you people lose my vote every time.
@commo842001 You seem to be against common sense gun laws that would prevent guns from getting into the hands of most people who would use them for all the wrong reasons. Since I believe in common sense gun laws, apparently that makes me a control freak. You may become a victim of your own ideology some day. I bet at that point, you won't consider it a Liberal or Conservative issue. We seem to share many of the same ideological views. Do you support ideological purity tests???
@nightrider I have been pepper sprayed and its not that bad. The old option was to go in behind a glass shield and start clubbing everybody. I must ask if you were that cop how would you have handled that whole situation if your job depended on it?
@commo842001 If I was in law enforcement, I wouldn't try to silence peaceful protesters exercising their guaranteed 1st Amendment rights. The creator of pepper spray has stated that he's shocked that it's being used against peaceful protesters. At least 1 woman reportedly suffered a miscarriage after being pepper sprayed. Many have coughed up blood & had allergic reactions. You seem to be paranoid about our govt, but don't see anything wrong when it silences peaceful protest???
@nightrider You see theres your mistake. You think that insane people are also stupid and incapable. When the Unibomber was captured he had a zipgun. I support protest against banks and colleges but I think they are pointless when you keep paying the college that authorizes such tactics like a bunch of dumb asses.
@commo842001 There's your logic flaw. You believe that everyone who can't legally buy guns have the mental skills to build their own. I'd be willing to bet that few of the insane possess the mental skills to build their own guns & ammo. Every year during hunting season, it's amazing how many gun related "accidents" occur. Usually these shootings were committed by people who should never have been allowed to shoot, let alone own guns. Conservatives are often their victims...
@nightrider So if you close those loopholes, what common sense gun laws would stop mentally insane people or violent criminals from making zip guns or just outright stealing them from people?
@commo842001 My hunch is that most insane people are incapable of building their own guns. They probably don't have much trouble making knives though...
I wonder what you would think of the OWS protesters if after they were pepper sprayed, they began exercising their 2nd Amendment rights? Would you have strongly supported the protesters after they killed a few of the aggressive law enforcement officers who were stripping them of their guaranteed 1st Amendment rights???
@nightrider I am only telling you why the second ammendment is there. If you had any hunting experience you would know that some pistols are used for hunting yes even the evil ones with horns and a tail like the 10mm. There are already laws in place like using a form 4473 which does ask if you are a criminal or mentally ill when you buy a firearm. I do not support crazy people getting firearms but they all want tougher gun legislation and call themselves liberals so I dont have to worry.
@commo842001 Loopholes in gun laws allow anyone to buy guns at gun shows & from private sellers without filling out any forms or background checks. If you were interested, you could see many YT videos showing how easy it is for anyone to buy guns, even those who admit to the seller that they probably couldn't pass background checks. If you are against any common sense gun laws, then you support sales to the mentally insane & unstable. This isn't a Liberal or Conservative issue...
@nightrider the right to bear arms has nothing to do with deerhunting or sports and it was a deer hunting rifle that Jason Kerns used to shoot down a police helicopter in Albuquerque in 2005. The right to bear arms is about fighting a tyrannical government should it become necessary or defending our homes should the government become uncapable of defending our borders. Show me where the constitution says we have a right to bear arms for deer hunting only.
@commo842001 So are you ready to rise up right now to fight the US govt? Do you believe that the US govt is about to come after you? Have you joined a local militia? How long do you think you would last in a shootout with law enforcement officers? You sound paranoid. Do you think you should be able to buy missiles & grenades too? Do you believe that the insane & unstable should be able to buy guns & ammo too? Are you against all common sense gun laws???
@nightrider You still have not answered my question? If posession of knives and stabbing tools are against the law in prison why are prisoners and guards still being stabbed?
@commo842001 Since I grew up with guns in a hunting family, I would have to politely but strongly disagree with your inaccurate assertion. You shouldn't try to assume anything about people you've never met & know nothing about. You still haven't answered my question. Do you believe that gun dealers should be able to sell weapons to anyone who can afford them, including the mentally insane & unstable???
@nightrider Most of the weapons taken from cartels were bought legally from the US by the Mexican law enforcement or the Mexican military and then sold to the cartels. Even US police sell thier firearms to Mexican cartels just look at what happened in Columbus, New Mexico. Cops can buy fully autos for department use even if there was an assault weapons ban so how does strict gun laws stop that.
@commo842001 Actually, the majority of weapons being used by the Mexican Cartels were bought legally in the US at gun shows with no background checks. Even the insane can buy these US guns legally. In Tucscon, Jared Loughner was subdued only when he tried to change clips. Loughner was using a 31 bullet clip outlawed in several states. Fewer would have been injured & killed if common sense laws had banned the sale of these clips. Assault weapons are lousy deer hunting guns...
@nightrider no legislation or law that restricts firearms will stop the fighting in mexico or stop the violence in this country. Stabbing weapons and knives are not allowed in prison but there are still people being stabbed to death in prison. It is against the law to make explosives but that did not stop Ted Kyzynski a Harvard grad by the way or Timothy Mcveigh a former army sergeant. This is the same point I make to conservatives about legal weed people still use it anyway so legalize it.
@commo842001 When weapons are hard to obtain, it's less likely that they'll be used as often. This is easy to see. Since nuclear weapons are nearly impossible to buy, we don't see them being regularly used to wipe cities off the map. US weapons are easy to obtain here in the US, so a great many are being bought here & shipped into Mexico & Mexico is paying a heavy price. Laws can't prevent crazy people from doing crazy things, but they can make it much more difficult to succeed.
Maybe teabaggers in the Tea Party can help me out with something. Why do teabaggers in the Tea Party take offense to the name teabagger? they're the one who teabag & are always talking about teabagging, such as; "Teabag the White House", "Teabag President Obama", "Teabag the Health Care Bill", "Teabag the Democrats", etc. If you act, you're an actor. If you sing, you're a singer. If you paint, you're a painter. So, if you teabag, you're a teabagger.Nothing disrespectful about that name
@nightrider You can thank the botched ATF sting for some those guns that made it into mexico under the Obama administration. Some of the weapons that were smuggled came from the Colombus, New Mexico police force. The police can get military grade firearms no matter what the laws are. Laws mean nothing to criminals.
@commo842001 The ATF Fast & Furious program only accounts for a small percentage of weapons that freely flow into Mexico every year. Our lax gun laws make it extremely easy for the cartel to buy weapons in the US & export them into Mexico, where they are being used to wage a bloody & deadly drug war against the Mexican govt. Are you aware that the ATF program originated during GW's tenure? Would you support gun & ammo sales to the mentally insane & unstable???
@NightriderXP1 Most of the weapons being supplied come from the Mexican military and are bought from corrupt federale and high ranking mexican soldiers. There is no place in the United States that manufactures Russian RPGs or sells live Grenades. The American weapons are bought legally by the Mexican government then sold or traded to the cartels. Violent crime in this country has decreased since the sunset of the Assault weapons ban explain that.
@commo842001 Most of the weapons being used in Mexico's deadly & bloody drug war were made in the good ol' USA. These weapons freely flow across the border. These guns are easily purchased at gun shows thanks to the NRA's war against common sense. You failed to answer whether you support selling guns & ammo to the mentally insane & unstable. Are there any gun regulations that you would support or should gun dealers be allowed to sell any weapon to anyone who can pay the price???
@commo842001 Maybe you can help me out with something. Why do teabaggers in the Tea Party take offense to the name teabagger? they're the one who teabag & are always talking about teabagging, such as; "Teabag the White House", "Teabag President Obama", "Teabag the Health Care Bill", "Teabag the Democrats", etc. If you act, you're an actor. If you sing, you're a singer. If you paint, you're a painter. So, if you teabag, you're a teabagger.Nothing disrespectful about that name
@commo842001 No one is trying to take your guns away from you. US Gun dealers have been using this lie to promote their sales though. It's odd that Republicans/Libertarians are fighting hard to make it harder for Americans to vote, yet they're trying to make it easier for anyone to buy guns. Even though there were several in the crowd carrying weapons in Tucson, no one was able to stop Jared Loughner from killing 6 people. One guy nearly shot another innocent armed guy though...
@nightriderXP1 If you like Canada so much maybe you should move there. I live closer to Mexico and if we disarm these poor American farmers along the border dealing with armed mexican military incursions across our border and drug smugglers then we are screwing American citizens out the right to defend thier property. If you had your way they would be using hunting rifles against people with fully automatic rifles. Oh wait Obama says the border is secure so it must be true.
@commo842001 Why would you tell those who disagree with you to leave the country? Canadians live together, own guns, & have a lower % of gun violence than the US. Canada also has stricter gun laws too. Gun & ammo dealers use Obama to promote their their sales even though Obama has never tried to pass gun legislation. Are you aware that there are more US natl guards patrolling the Mexican border than during GW's tenure? US guns freely flowing into Mexico are killing thousands...
@nightriderXP1 I am angry that union thugs force people out of work. I had to work for my uncle moving scrap iron when I was twelve because I could not get a job to help my mom because of that dumb child labor law. Some environmental laws actually empower the monopoly on oil. I would prefer common sense gun legislation. Mexico has more stringent gun laws but more gun violence. The US has 312,822,000 people Canada only has 34,605,346 people.
@commo842001 Unions haven't forced anyone out of work. Tax cuts for the wealthy have allowed businesses to offshore those jobs & industries since they no longer have to reinvest in their employees & businesses to avoid paying taxes. With unemployment high, how does adding children to the workforce benefit the working class? Let's end Social Security too so that the elderly also have to fight for those limited jobs. When companies hire children, they don't pay living wages...
There's no point in arguing with you, those politicians are not libertarian. There was never a "libertarian experiment". I have no idea where you got that shit. The closest we got to that was Jefferson in the early 1800's, which I would hardly call a failure. The "deregulation" that the neocons began overwhelmingly favored the largest corporations at the time, because they lobbied for it personally. That is not libertarianism, that is corporatism - THAT has failed
@VegitoVai90 If Rand & Ron Paul aren't Libertarian, no one is. The Libertarian experiment began in 1980 when Reagan became POTUS. To them, govt isn't the solution, but it's the problem. So after 5 decades of economic prosperity that built our great middle class, they switched to Trickle Down Economics & deregulation. This succeeded in redistributing wealth upward to the wealthy minority at the expense of everyone else. Their idea was to repeal the successes of the 20th Century.
Reagan was a neocon. He escalated the drug war, raised taxes for everyone but the wealthy, and boosted defense spending. That is the opposite of libertarianism. Also, supply side economics is still government intervention, which is also antithetical. I'll spell it out for you - Reagan's rhetoric was merely that - rhetoric. He and the Bush's were just as regulatory as any liberal, except they regulated in favor of the largest corporations. Again, not libertarian.
@VegitoVai90 You seem to be defining Libertarianism as a monolithic ideology. Which form of Libertarianism do you use to define the entire group: libertarian socialism, consequentialist, contractarian, communism, or deontological? Reagan had neocons in his administration, such as Jeanne Kirkpatrick, but he also appointed Libertarian Alan Greenspan to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Reaganomics was a Libertarian economic model intended to Starve the Beast & shrink the govt...
@commo842001 Are you old enough to remember when every large city in the US had a brown cloud hanging over them? Do you remember when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire? Businesses aren't good at protecting the environment or communities. Remember the Bopal disaster? Why you be bothered by environmental laws that protect you?
The % of gun related violence is far higher in the US than Canada. Mexico is fighting a bloody Civil War, thanks to our War on Drugs & US weapons.
@nightriderXP1 I am angry that union thugs force people out of work. I had to work for my uncle moving scrap iron when I was twelve because I could not get a job to help my mom because of that dumb child labor law. Some environmental laws actually empower the monopoly on oil. I would prefer common sense gun legislation like safety classes and better background checks. Mexico has more stringent gun laws but more gun violence. The US has 312,822,000 people Canada only has 34,605,346 people.
@nightriderXP1 for one we have liberal teachers using schools to force thier views on my kids and a legal system that says I have to allow it or my kids will be taken from me. I for one would like to let my children decide for themselves. Since the expiration of the Assault weapons ban crime has decreased in this country and liberals want to bring back a sensless ban that was useless considering the columbine massacre happened during the "assault" weapons ban. Cars kill more people every year.
@commo842001 Which Liberal views are your kids being taught that you dislike? Are you angry that Liberals fought for & won protections for workers? Do you dislike the 40 hour work week, overtime pay, vacation pay, unemployment benefits, child labor laws, environmental laws, etc? I'm not sure why gun legislation bothers you. Would you prefer that the criminally insane have easier access to guns? We're a violent nation. It's odd that Canada experiences far less gun violence...
Most humans are assholes myself included. The only difference is there are a few of us willing to admit it. Everyone else lives in denial and they think that they are better or superior in some way. Liberals are assholes for wanting to take away our individual freedoms and conservatives are assholes for selling out our collective freedom for a quick buck. All assholes living in denial.
@commo842001 Since your view of most humans is so negative, I'm not surprised that you can't see good in any group. There's no way to have a constructive conversation with someone with such negative views because it's clear that nothing discussed could possibly sway you. You'd see a great many decent people if you opened your eyes & mind to see them. I feel sorry for you since life can't possibly be worth living. What individual freedoms do you believe Liberals took from you???
NightriderXP1 Ha Ha Ha I feel sorry for you if you really believe that garbage. One groups brand of insanity is no better than another groups brand of insanity because in the end it is still just madness. Liberals are just as bad as conservatives just look at Charlie Wrangells tax problems and the Blagovich scandal. I am not conservative or liberal I think both sides are extremist and dumb for being to divided to look at the real problem. The mass bank financed corruption of our government.
@commo842001 You're making a huge mistake in your argument by condemning a whole group based on the actions of a few. By your logic, since some humans are assholes, that means that all humans are assholes. Of course my hunch is that you won't ever try to make that association. Then again, perhaps you will? If you dislike all the Liberal policies that you benefit from every single day, I can understand why you might equate Liberalism to extremism. I doubt that most would agree.
I am biracial and I think Bill Maher is stuck on racism. There is no political party that is correct or better. All political parties are owned and funded by the banks. The only color that matters is green.
@commo842001 I will have to disagree with you on several points. If Maher saw a rape then talked about it, I don't consider him stuck on the topic. Teabirchers tend to have trouble hiding their racist instincts...
Conservatives from BOTH parties are puppets for the wealthy. The GOP is 100% Conservative. The Dems have about 25% Conservatives. Liberals aren't easily bought by the wealthy. There are no Liberal Republicans but approx 75% Liberal Dems. The parties are different.
@mentalphysicalism What you describe is a good definition for Conservatism. I see no good reason why anyone would vote for that a Party that only knows how to tear things apart. Where are the projects that made this nation great? We used to think big allowing us to go to the moon, build a nationwide interstate system, damns, & railroads which created jobs. Now they want to starve the govt making it impossible to do anything great. We have lost our way as a nation...
@brettawesome According to the policy they support so far, they are not actually about financial prosperity, except maybe for a few hundred individuals who already control too much of a nation's wealth to be healthy for the economy.
If their idea were ones that is known to work, then maybe, but they don't. So they don't have much left.
@Neosaigo I think the tea party have the right idea economically but I think the media may have portrayed them as ignorant white racist trash and reduced their effectiveness. I agree catering to corporations is bad but I think the tea party is different from the republican party in that respect.
@brettawesome The MSM worked very hard to whitewash Teabircher nonsense. The MSM helped create & promote the movement. Teabaggers only have themselves to blame for perception that people have of them. If they had denounced & rejected the racists when they reared their ugly heads at their rallies, then the racist label would never have been pinned on the movement. The teabircher movement is attractive the same racist bigots who are attracted to the KKK. GOP=Teabirchers...
@brettawesome MSM refers to the Main Stream Media. But MSM is a misnomer. It would be more appropriate to refer to the media as the WSM; i.e. Wall Street Media. These are wealthy corporations that promote their own self interests. Up until recently, GE owned NBC. It wasn't surprising to see NBC promoting the invasion of Iraq since it's a major player in our military industrial complex. FOX, NBC, CBS, & ABC all promote corporate tax cuts, since they all benefit from them...
@brettawesome The MSM is big business. They are the pockets, the sleeves, the collars, etc. They use the airwaves to promote their bottom line. Most Russians are aware that Pravda is a propaganda network. Unfortunately, few Americans realize that almost everything they hear is geared toward the best interests of the parent companies of these media giants. As the drums beat louder for an invasion of Iran, the MSM won't be "fair & balanced" explaining why it would be a bad idea.
@NightriderXP1 yeah I think I agree. which is why I'm going to vote for Ron Paul because he is the only right wing candidate who would cut spending more than any other candidate and not go to war w/ Iran. Not to mention his record against being swayed by corporations is flawless.
@brettawesome I think most Liberals can agree with Ron Paul on his foreign policy views. But Ron Pauls domestic views would be a disaster for a great many Americans. Ron Paul wants to repeal most of the 20th century that succeeded in building the great middle class. Ron Paul wants to eliminate govt regulation & programs that benefit the working class. If Ron Paul is successful, the wealthy minority will benefit immensely while the majority will lose all of their protections...
@NightriderXP1 i disagree, mainly because I think most of the corporations' strength comes from deals made with politicians by corporations, not by lack of regulation.
@brettawesome Corporations pay politicians to vote for deregulation & lower taxes to increase their profits. This doesn't trickle down to the majority of Americans though. We've seen exactly what these companies do when they aren't regulated. There was a time not that long ago when every major city in the US had a large brown smog clouds floating over them. We have many major EPA sites from companies that dumped toxins in our backyards in order to increase their profits...
@NightriderXP1 ok i think we're going to have to agree to disagree on your 1st point. the 2nd makes sense in this context, but why the regulations on ANWAR and other oil drilling sites? such an influx of oil into the market would not only decrease prices for the American consumer but also stop a lot of our domestic money from going overseas.
@brettawesome After seeing what BP did to the Gulf of Mexico, you should understand why drilling in ANWR could be an extremely bad idea. Also, if all the oil ended up being sold in the US, that could lower our pump prices. What you may not be aware of is that this year, our biggest US EXPORT was gasoline & other fuels. Rather than using it to drive down the price that Americans pay, the oil is added to the world market. Opening ANWR to drilling won't lower prices at the pump...
@brettawesome the # 1 thing we've heard them complain about was his damn freaking birth certificate..pointing fingers...where are the great ideas?????
@Em183 If you're waiting for great ideas from the GOP, you're going to have a long wait. This is a party of obstruction & No. Their only purpose in life is to make sure the economy can't recover for their own political gain. So they deal with non issues. The other day, the House passed a bill to create a bust of Churchill because Obama returned the one that had been in the White House. The House has dealt with religious issues but haven't put any effort into resolving unemployment...
@brettawesome The US is currently suffering from Libertarian policies. Cutting regulations only helps the corporations whose sole purpose is to increase profits. They don't use morality in making their decisions. If you like breathing clean air, eating safe food, working in safe working conditions, etc, you favor regulations. If you favor tax cuts for the wealthy & deregulation, it hurts the majority for the benefit of the few. Libertarian policies only benefit the wealthy...
@NightriderXP1 You're confusing libertarian policies with traditional republican policies. Libertarian policies would help everyone, whereas republican policies cater to big businesses & corporations.
@brettawesome Libertarian policies would hurt everyone except for the wealthy. Libertarians believe in small govt. The wealthy don't like to be burdened by regulations, like clean air & water regulations, safe working conditions, 40 hour work week, unemployment, etc. Providing employee benefits & protections cut into corp profits. Can you think of any successful country that is based on Libertarian principles? It sounds good on paper, but it would be a disaster in real life...
@NightriderXP1 I'm pretty sure the founding fathers were libertarian. They feared tyrannical governments above all else and thus established America. Also, when you cut into their profits too much domestically they outsource jobs, taking their investments overseas to poorer nations who will work for less.
@brettawesome When the US middle class was thriving, there were many 3rd world nations that had huge workforces that would have worked for slave wages. Why did corps hire Americans & pay them decent wages then? At the time, corp tax rates were high, so to avoid paying taxes, these companies "decreased" their profits by reinvesting in their businesses & employees. Now that taxes are low, corps don't have to work hard to evade paying taxes, so they offshore our jobs & industries.
@brettawesome After our Great Depression, New Deal policies helped create our great middle class. This was when the 40 hr work week, unemployment insurance, holiday pay, Social Security, Medicare, etc were passed, which benefit the vast majority of Americans. Why didn't business offshore at that time? Their employees were now costing them far more. Corp taxes increased to as high as 91%, forcing them to reinvest in their businesses, decreasing profits to avoid paying taxes...
@NightriderXP1 i don't think any of those programs are necessary for each and every case. I think they may provide stability, but all of those programs could come from private businesses like insurances. If the individual doesn't like the entity theyre going to work for or the benefits, why go to work for them?
@brettawesome Before the Great Depression, there were no protections. The elderly were our poorest population. A great many were homeless. It only takes one medical emergency to bankrupt someone. Our New Deal programs created a stable environment that helped created the middle class. Now people don't have to work until they drop dead. Social Security & Medicare are both very successful & beneficial programs. Privatizing them only increases costs while decreasing benefits...
, , , , And the Lord Jeehovah came unto them and sayeth. Go ye forth and break bread with the Caaneenittes. Break bread also with the Sodomittes. Bu break ye not any bread with the Baggerittes. For I , the Lord God, shall break wind upon them and send them scurrying thinot the desert wasteland seeking fresh air. Amen
@graysonTW Liberals aren't taking away pensions or raising health insurance rates. Look at who is voting for what. You'll find that Conservatives from BOTH parties vote to benefit the very wealthy. Voting for Conservative candidates, gets more of the same. I understand that you don't care about your fellow Americans & want to benefit the wealthy in every way possible. I'm not sure why though since the wealthy really don't care about you. Why vote against your own best economic interests???
OK...so first he says religion is bad because it was delusional...then he tells us that the 50's were not so good because it was bad for all the people who did not built the country in the first place...who built AMERICA...white men did. Who saved the jews from Hitler...white men did...who abolished slavery...white men...who gave women rights...white men...who let gays have Pride Day...once again...whitey!!!! Fuck off idiots before you wreck our country by pulling your race/jew cards!
@chefshitpiece I'll give you only 1 warning. I won't tolerate racism in this video discussion. To believe your comment, you have to ignore the contributions of all the non whites that helped build this country. You have to ignore the contributions of non whites who have fought to defend this nation too. Your whole comment is silly. Hitler was white. White men promoted slavery. Women, gays, blacks, Asians, Latinos, etc have all contributed to this country. Why ignore their contributions?
@NightriderXP1 How is it racist to point out that the vast majority of the development of this nation were due to the physical work, innovative developments, and wartime casualities of white christian men? Im not saying that blacks made no contributions, an their descendents are entitled to fair restitution, but the fact is that the bulk of the workload was done by a white nation. You are being disrespectful of America's fallen soldiers when you try to rewrite history to suit yourself.
@chefshitpiece The US has been a melting pot since its inception. The White House was built by black slaves. Ignoring the accomplishments of non whites who have also built the country that we live in & fought side by side with whites to protect us is racism. They've fought against persecution, intolerance, ignorance, hate, prejadism, etc. Don't rewrite history to exclude the contributions of non whites. Minorities didn't choose to be enslaved by white landowners. They fought for freedom...
@NightriderXP1 But even since its inception it was a melting pot from European countries that had a shared sense of religious, political, historical, and moral identity. Yes there were slaves who helped built this nation and their ancestors deserve a piece of the pie, but that does not justify an anything-goes-open-border policy that alters a sense of national cohesion. ANY nation must have a core of group identity or it will last about as long as a human body with no skeletal structure.
@chefshitpiece The slaves weren't European. The men "recruited" to build our nat'l railway were Asian, Chinese to be exact. Latinos have been populating much of the southern US since Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba. Since the white population is predicted to cease to be the majority race in the US by 2050, do you believe that the US won't be able to exist when it no longer has a white "core"? The US became a successful nation because of diversity & hard work, not because of white DNA...
@NightriderXP1 It wasnt really as diverse as you say. Only 2% of Americans owned slaves. If every American owned a slave then they would not be a minority. Do the math. Yes the Chinese built the railways, and their descendents are owed a piece of the pie. But to hear it from you whites didnt do anything. The Japanese built a great nation, so its not a 'white gene' thing. But they built it by working hard, not by playing any sympathy cards. That is the path to failure, not success.
The 1950s? Please, the tax rate then on the richest Americans was around 90%, that's not quite four times the effective tax rate for the same folks now. And they're not even "the same folks"! Back then the richest Americans had no salary greater than 50 times that of the average American; now some have 400x.
starwarsgeek8 1 week ago
"Goober nation" LOL!!!!!
meamishere 1 week ago
The 1950s were the most awful period in American history. It was an insane dream with a smell of clean house. The commercial where a blonde woman would use the Vacuum with joy. But if you were back, you couldn't vote, you lived in slum. If you were a women, and you looked too masculine, it was lobotomy or electroshock. This period was like the song at the time. Tickling bell, innocent. But under this, it was horrible, insane, inhuman.
It was surely a Brave New World.
MenwithHill 3 weeks ago
It's funny he should mention not being able to see Ray Romano hitting his wife on TV. You aren't able because Ray was the one being hit and shoved and called names by his wife. He even said in one episode he was sick of her hitting him all the time and she pushed him into a book case. Actual abuse!
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I don't remember women actually getting hit by their husbands on TV for comedic relief.
nurb101 4 weeks ago
@nurb101 My mom disliked that show for precisely that reason. That, and the constant verbal abuse.
ZeusYourUncle 1 week ago
@nurb101 Ray's wife on "Everybody Loves Raymond" was an awful character. I like Ray Romano, but couldn't watch the show because of the wife character. She was so over the top, there was nothing to like about her, and too much to not like about her.
You wrote: "I don't remember women actually getting hit by their husbands on TV for comedic relief."
On "I Love Lucy," Desi used to put Lucy across his lap and spank her. So, not only did he physically abuse her, he also infantilized her.
YY4Me133 1 week ago
We gotta do something about all these lazy, no-good nation-builders!
Wintermute01001 1 month ago
@Wintermute01001 Probably if the nation-builders didn't spend so much time invading & occupying foreign nations, not only would there be a lot less bloodshed, but we would have a lot more money to spend on our domestic needs. Our country would be much better off if those nation-builders were lazy...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 what about the contractors, that will loose jobs if we don"t have war?
darthbentley 1 month ago
@darthbentley Military contractors can focus on building positive things, like a green economy. We could invest in our aging infrastructure, space exploration, wind, solar, & other renewable energy programs, etc. We can invest in our children, our schools, training medical professionals, insuring the uninsured, etc. Building tools of destruction is a terrible waste of our natl treasure & when we use them, we create enemies. Iran used to be a democracy until we dismantled it...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
Nice to finally meet someone who gets it.
1Speedra 1 month ago
@1Speedra It's good to meet you too. As the GOP continues to implode, more & more Americans will turn away from the Teabirchers. Most people just don't like bullies, bigots, & intolerant assholes especially when they're fighting against their own fiscal interests in favor of the wealthy minority...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@1Speedra Someone who finally gets it? Go outside the US and you'll see just how fucking crazy you all seem. Its a common concensus outside your bass-ackwards country that the Americans are illogical warmongering homophobic nitcases.
When the stereotype of your country turns that bad, theres something wrong.
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@TheRimDoctor Herbert Moon sounds like a typical Teabircher. As a Canadian, you may not be aware that most Americans have a negative view of the Teabircher movement. Don't judge us all based on the insanity of the noisiest few. There are many differing views in the US that you may not be hearing if you ingest news from media outlets that promote & regurgitate insane Libertarian/Conservative rhetoric. Canada has its share of radical right wing bigoted & intolerant extremists...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 I like you. And interestingly enough, our biggest right wing bigot is currently in office. You see, in Canada during the 1990s in the West when Canada was about to split apart we had the reform party show up. And since the West are all farmers, bigots and hicks, they became big. Official Opposition big. Scary big, given their platform of complete takedown of social policy. The Progressive Conservatives had fallen apart and had 1 seat left in HoC. Under pressure from
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 ...under pressure from normal Canadians, the crazy fucking Reform Party switched to become Canadian Alliance Party. Then the Canadian Alliance Party absorbed the rest of the Progressive Conservatives, which were for 100 years either Official Opposition or In power, to create the current Conservative Party. These are not the nice, centerline PCs we once had under the similar name, no these people are Take down public healthcare Gays are bad crazy. Now we have
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 ..now we have polarization of Parties, given the fall of the Liberals last election who now want to legalize marijuana and the NDP on the left. Anyways, to sum this all up, Bigots and extremists are considered illegal in Canadian elections for Hate speech reasons. But somehow they managed to weasel their way into office with Majority thanks to the Albertans. But wont enact anything too crazy because if they did, Parliament would toss them out of office. Full circle.
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@TheRimDoctor You're dealing with the same insanity that arose here in the US & around the globe. Have your media outlets become the voice of the radical right wing agenda? Conservatism gobbled up almost all of the AM radio spectrum. Then it succeeded in deregulating industry allowing wealthy Conservative businessmen to consolidate & monopolize the media industry. FOX promotes the GOP agenda. CNN is trying to emulate FOX. Next they're trying to take control of the Internet...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 Whats interesting in Canada is we don't have biased News sources because no one cares. Radio talk shows aren't dictated by the personalities of the hosts, rather any issues brought up by callers. We have no reason to slander one party or another because we have confidence that Parliament, the Senate or the Governor General will stop anything unrational done by the ruling party or the Prime Minister himself. There is some guy named Ezra who hates Socialism, though.
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@TheRimDoctor So what would explain your country's rapid lurch to the right? It's clear to see that the Conservative movement in the US is bound & determined to control all of our media. Once they control the media, they can silence all opposition, which is proving to be extremely successful. Bills in Congress that were recently shelved would have allowed them to shut down any web site that they didn't like. It was a major power grab that has been averted for the time being...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 I would not say its a rapid lurch to the right, but I would say the right has gone farther right. I say this because the NDP, who are so left it would make Americas head spin, have gotten official opposition with a recent landslide victory. They were typically 3rd or 4th Party (After Bloc Quebecois) but its so unexpected that they beat the allpowerful Liberals by 70 seats because they typically sat with ~30 or so for 50 years. Its thanks to our Youth that we're left
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@TheRimDoctor In the US, the South is the base of the Conservative right. These were the States that seceded from the US over slavery. Even though they don't control the Senate, Conservatives hold enough power to block all legislation & appointments. They're obstructing any effort to rescue our economy. Since many Americans don't pay attention to politics, they have no idea why the economy isn't improving, so they blame the incumbents. The GOP is banking on this ignorance...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 Jack Layton was NDP leader and was charismatic, hopeful, etc. Our voters are not concerned with the economy (Canada has faired extremely well), what our voters want, and what our youth want is freedom for all and a more European society. We enjoy gloating our free healthcare and more Nature-friendly lives. Remember, The Conservatives have majority of seats, but not majority of voters. They have somewhere around 30% of the vote.
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@TheRimDoctor Canada never deregulated its banking industry, so it wasn't directly affected by the gambling that took our economy to its knees. But if your Conservative leaders are looking to America for guidance, they too will deregulate your industries putting Canadians at great risk. Hopefully your voters will be able to stop this before it's enacted in Canada. Reagan started this agenda. 30 yrs of Libertarian/Conservative policies were enacted to intentionally bankrupt us.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 But Ezra Levant runs a show no one is stupid enough to watch anyways. What I find the key difference between voters in the US and Canada is that theUS appears to gobble up propaganda (Which is the only stuff that spews North, plus more or less Neutral CNN, so we make what we can of it) but Canadians don't respond to propaganda because we as a country identify it and make fun of whoever created it. We look South and wonder why you're concerned With God Guns & Gays
TheRimDoctor 1 month ago
@TheRimDoctor The vocal Conservative religious right has no real concern about the economy. They've always fought against people who aren't like them. They would prefer to amend our constitution to strip Americans of their rights. They succeeded in adding our 18th Amendment in 1919 that banned alcohol. They're against religious freedom for non-christians, women's rights, gays, minorities, etc. They would be comfortable with the KKK. This isn't how most Americans think...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
Get rid of the tea baggers.
1Speedra 1 month ago
@1Speedra I think the Teabirchers are well on their way to making themselves irrelevant & a small footnote in American history. Most Americans hold an unfavorable view of them & their polls are steadily going downhill...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
Blame the blacks and mexicans on this one....they dont know how to stop poppin them out. Especially with welfare being handed out like no tomorrow
gasmask4poop 1 month ago
@gasmask4poop You seem to be ignorant that poor white people suffer from the exact same issues faced by any other race. Quit kicking the people who are suffering the most. They didn't create our major national problems. Wealthy people who gambled trillions & lost, then were bailed out, caused our fiscal problems. Are you upset that as a wealthy nation, we have so many Americans living in poverty while the 400 wealthiest Americans own more wealth than over 150 MILLION Americans?
NightriderXP1 1 month ago 3
There's no such thing as "reverse racism". It's a dumb as saying there's a profession called 'male nursing'. It's like calling all the shit thrown at men these days 'reverse sexism'. If one person holds another's ethnicity against them, it's racist. It doesn't matter what the ethnicity is of the person originating the sentiment or what the ethnicity is of the object of the slander.
ChipArgyle 1 month ago
what's he wining about.
timmay301 1 month ago
@timmay301 Watch the video and find out...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
Yeah! I miss the white male dominated , good ol days .
gofindyourmusic 1 month ago
A Blind Spot about race!! About reality!!!!!!
gofindyourmusic 1 month ago
guber nation
lol
masonshlton5 1 month ago
pelley gave a more complete synopsis of the food stamp issue tonight. he gave the % collected by whites and the % collected by blacks THEN said, of course the population has 72% whites compared to 15%?? blacks! i'll take credit for the
graysonTW 1 month ago
@graysonTW Are you upset that as a wealthy nation, we have so many Americans living in poverty while the 400 wealthiest Americans own more wealth than over 150 MILLION Americans? Do you know that 6 members of the Walton family, the family that owns Sams & Walmart, have more wealth than the bottom 30% of the US population? Why aren't the wealthy hiring Americans & paying them living wages in order to lower food stamp usage? Poor people didn't cause the problem so quit kicking them.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
Scott Pelley proclaimed tonight on the CBS evening news that "84% of the food stamps disbursed in the state of Iowa go to white people while only 9% go to blacks"!
Iowa demographics are: 91.3% white and 2.9% black. scumbag Pelley never mentioned those figures.....*snicker*
so while 91% of the population collects 84% of the stamps, less than 3% collects 9% and the other 6% collects 7% of the stamps.
these journalists?? have no scruples at all. they think we're all MORONS!
graysonTW 1 month ago
@graysonTW It sounds like Scott Pelley is trying to educate ignorant jerks that food stamps are available for everyone who needs them regardless of skin color. Those who believe that the poor in the wealthiest nation on the planet should starve or go hungry are morons. I would think that the wealth redistributed to the wealthiest affect you far more. It's mean spirited to kick people when their down. If you consider the poor your greatest threat, you're priorities are misplaced...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 ; i'm not against the poor at all. i'm against rancid, convoluted journalism. but apparently you left-wing loonies love it.
this was a classic case of spewing 1/2 of the facts. apparently you're satisified with getting 1/2 of a story. that's why you have the perception you have of the situation this country is in.
graysonTW 1 month ago
@graysonTW There wasn't anything rancid about the report you mentioned. Apparently you wanted it to claim that poor black people are lazy, blood suckers though. You're not even trying to hide your racist views. Whether you believe it or not, your enemy isn't poor black people who need food stamps to survive. The wealthy are hurting you far more than the poor ever will. I don't expect you to understand this though since you have issues with those who don't share your skin color...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago 14
Why are teabaggers so in love with Ronald Reagan? He's totally unlike them. Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times, gave amnesty to illegal aliens, tripled the debt, had Reaganomics & "trickle down" effect that didn't work, never worked & will never work, left office with the BIGGEST national debt & deficit in history & was involved in the Iran Conta scandal. Ronald Reagan may talk like a Republican but he governs like a Democrat. Ronald Reagan is a RINO
MsLlcools 1 month ago
@MsLlcools Reagan governed like a Republican. Since Reagan, the GOP has been moved far to the radical right by members of the John Birch Society. Reagan implemented Libertarian economic policies that are still being used today to dismantle the govt. Reagan's Starve the Beast & Trickle Down Economics policies enrich the wealthy while attempting to dismantle safety net programs. Thanks to Reagan's policies, the gap between the wealthy minority & everyone else has never been greater.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
I would say no one should hunt unless they're prepared to eat what they kill, except that, all too often, right-wingers make me shout, "Eat me!"
UncleMikeNJ 1 month ago
@nightrider you know you are one of those elitist ass clowns that thinks they know whats best for everyone else just becuase your ideology works for you and helps you live with who you are. I have respect for other people and believe they should be free to make thier own choices so lets leave it at that. I will just let my vote do the talking good bye.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 You seem to share many of the same views that I hold. Your hostility seems surprising. I highly doubt that you want to make it easier for people to buy C-4 or nuclear warheads. So the real difference is where our line in the sand starts & ends. This isn't a left or right issue. It doesn't matter which side of the political divide you align to, you can still become a victim of loose gun laws. Once you become a victim, you learn far more respect for gun legislation.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider some hunters use hollow point to cause a humane and quick death by a heart shot with a low grain load like with scout rifle or if there are hunting in areas where they do not want the bullet travelling to far beyond the target. If you knew anything about firearms you would have gathered that I was saying low velocity ammo is best for home defense and so called assault weapons are nothing more than cosmetically different than hunting firearms. I dont think you used to hunt at all.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 You've suggested that people should be free to buy anything they want & even compared me to Hitler for not agreeing with you. Yet as we discuss this topic, even you have acknowledged that some weapons & ammo shouldn't be easy to access. You also agree that the gun show loop holes should be closed. So it's clear that you also see that there needs to be limits & laws that make it harder for some weapons to be purchased & that some shouldn't have easy access to guns.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider explosives are already tightly regulated and the only explosive thing you can get at a 7/11 is a bean burrito. Yet there are still bombings that happen or attempts that fail. Did the explosives laws stop the oklahoma city, pentagon, or unibomber attacks? Go check and see what the laws are concerning explosives before you answer.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 That's my point. There are weapons that shouldn't be easy to obtain simply because it makes no sense. If C-4 was sold at 7-11, we'd see far more crimes committed using C-4. McVeigh made his bomb using fertilizer. But not everyone has the ability & resources to make a fertilizer bomb. Few people have the ability to built an assault rifle from scratch either. When assault weapons are easy to purchase, more people buy & use them. These aren't good hunting rifles...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider Hollow points are better at stopping an attacker and slowing down after going through the criminal. Also hollow points mushroom and are less likely to keep going so they are ideal for home defense in apartments where shoot through is a factor. Ball ammo will speed through walls and might hit someone so the best option is a shotgun or low velocity hollow point ammo. A hunting rifle uses high velocity ball ammo and is very poor for home defense. I thought you said you used to hunt?
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 You'ld never use hollow points to hunt unless you really weren't interested in the meat. They damage too much. You seem to believe that an assault weapon is going to be a good defensive weapon. A pistol would be better suited for home protection. Assault weapons are ideal for criminal use. Isn't it interesting how many well trained, well armed law enforcement officers are killed while on duty? Citizens with less training often become the victims of their own guns.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider what ever the intended function there is the reality and cars are more effectively killing more people. There are already limits and laws concerning explosives but those laws never stopped the oklahoma city bombing, the unibomber attacks, the 1970 NYC police station bombing, or the 1972 boming of the pentagon. Nobody but demolition crews and the military are allowed to legally have explosives but there are still bombings go figure.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 If you could buy C-4 at 7-11, you would see people resolving their personal conflicts with it. Easy access to weapons makes them more likely to be used for all the wrong reasons. If people could buy nuclear weapons, then our history would be darkened by the loss of many major cities. Making deadly weapons easier to buy allows those who have short fuses & can afford them to use them. So where is your limit? What line in the sand shouldn't be being crossed???
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider In my honest opinion I think gun control is just about a basic knee jerk reaction that most people have when a death occurs. People want to place the blame because it helps them to get a grip on why death occurs. I dont blame guns, cars, drugs, or even mcdonalds cheeseburgers for death. I blame people for the bad choices they make.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 The difference between guns & knives is that you have to get close to hurt someone with a knife. You're far more likely to survive a knife injury than a bullet wound. Throw in hollow point bullets & the survival rates plummet. Do you think there's a good reason for people to be able to buy hollow points? These bullets destroy much more of the meat, so they're really not ideal for hunting. Dying from poor health choices is different than being shot by someone else.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider I am sure the intended function of automobiles was never to kill people but automobiles have killed and will kill more people than firearms in this country if you want tighter regulation on things then maybe you should call for better regulation on drivers. It does not matter what guns look like or what they were intended for they can be used to protect and much as they are used to kill. How many of those gun deaths were criminals getting what they deserved.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 The difference between autos & guns is that 1 is designed for travel while the other is designed to kill. Is there a limit to what weapons you think citizens should be able to buy? Should citizens be able to buy RPGs, tanks, missiles, grenades, &/or nuclear weapons? Where is your limit or do you have one? A lot of people aren't criminals until they kill someone. In the heat of the moment, easy access to guns can often lead to insane decisions, quickly regretted...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider I am a freedom advocate. When one persons beliefs impede the ability of another person to live life how they choose then I say that is not freedom. I do believe they should close the gun show loophole but it should stop at that no "assault weapons ban" should ever have taken place any more than marijuana use should be against the law. People should be allowed to live thier lives on thier own terms without assholes telling them what they can and cant have. But its never enough.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 I agree with you that the War on Drugs has never made any sense. Thanks to that unwinnable war, the US now imprisons more of its citizenry than any other country in the world. That's not something we should be proud of. We should have learned from Prohibition that the War on Drugs was a fool's errand, but sadly we don't seem to be able to learn from history. Assault weapons use has a tendency to take lives away. These guns are designed to kill humans, not game...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider I have no fear of the government but I cant just pretend that these criminals in office are looking out for us when they are getting busted left and right for corruption and foul play. What ever my thoughts are on the vietnam war they never support terrorist acts against the government. I do not support extremist groups be they far left or far right. I cannot convince a left wing liberal nut anymore than I can convince a right wing nut so talking to you makes no sense.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 Again we agree about the Congressional clowns who have sold us out for personal profit. We seem to agree on more than you're willing to admit. But I have to wonder if you've thought it through about the 2nd Amendment. You seem to be extremely fond of guns, not for hunting, but for keeping the govt in check & defending your rights. So when do you finally decide to use your guns? How far will you allow the govt to go before you finally decide you've had enough???
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider left wing militias like the weatherman are far worse than right wing militias. Bill Ayers is a terrorist plain and simple. Like I said most people are assholes that want to impose thier will and choices on everyone else. I guess calling me paranoid is respect to you this why liberals get no real respect they verbally sucker punch you in the back and tattle tale when you punch them back.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 Do you believe pointing out an obvious fear is the same as calling someone a Nazi? You have a right to compare groups from 50 years ago with today, but you'll be hard pressed to find radical & violent left wing groups today. I don't think Bill Ayers is or ever was a threat to you. Right wing militias seem to be a dime a dozen now though, many based on pure racial hate. What did you think about the Raul & Brisenia Flores murders in Arivaca, Arizona???
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@commo842001 I'm actually surprised that you considered Bill Ayers a terrorist. If you supported his 2nd Amendment rights & if you're paranoid of the govt, then it would seem that your ideology closely align with his. One man's terrorist is another man's Freedom Fighter. If I remember correctly, Bill Ayers was fighting against a war of choice that had claimed nearly 60,000 American lives. Did you support the Vietnam war???
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider You say I am paranoid of the government well I served in the military for ten years and I am just smart enough to know that these people with freezers full of money and off shore accounts are not on my side. I only asked how you would have handled that situation and you assume I think the cop was in the right. You have more in common with George Bush than you think Mr. Nazi.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 I've been respectful of you, yet you call me a Nazi? We seem to agree on a many issues, so that might make you a Nazi too. Many who have served in our military come home & join radical right wing militias. I don't think serving the country guarantees that you don't become paranoid of the govt. If you supported the OWS protesters, your response suggested just the opposite since you offered only 2 options. Allowing the protests to continue wasn't one of your options.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider bet all you want but laws do nothing stop criminals hence the term "criminals". Its a fools paradise to try to control people if they will not obey laws. That is what I wanted to show you all along you liberals want control just as much as much as conservatives. You are all control freaks playing a dangerous game with everyone elses freedom. I am pro choice and I support legal marijuana and actually care for the enviroment but you people lose my vote every time.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 You seem to be against common sense gun laws that would prevent guns from getting into the hands of most people who would use them for all the wrong reasons. Since I believe in common sense gun laws, apparently that makes me a control freak. You may become a victim of your own ideology some day. I bet at that point, you won't consider it a Liberal or Conservative issue. We seem to share many of the same ideological views. Do you support ideological purity tests???
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider I have been pepper sprayed and its not that bad. The old option was to go in behind a glass shield and start clubbing everybody. I must ask if you were that cop how would you have handled that whole situation if your job depended on it?
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 If I was in law enforcement, I wouldn't try to silence peaceful protesters exercising their guaranteed 1st Amendment rights. The creator of pepper spray has stated that he's shocked that it's being used against peaceful protesters. At least 1 woman reportedly suffered a miscarriage after being pepper sprayed. Many have coughed up blood & had allergic reactions. You seem to be paranoid about our govt, but don't see anything wrong when it silences peaceful protest???
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider You see theres your mistake. You think that insane people are also stupid and incapable. When the Unibomber was captured he had a zipgun. I support protest against banks and colleges but I think they are pointless when you keep paying the college that authorizes such tactics like a bunch of dumb asses.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 There's your logic flaw. You believe that everyone who can't legally buy guns have the mental skills to build their own. I'd be willing to bet that few of the insane possess the mental skills to build their own guns & ammo. Every year during hunting season, it's amazing how many gun related "accidents" occur. Usually these shootings were committed by people who should never have been allowed to shoot, let alone own guns. Conservatives are often their victims...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider So if you close those loopholes, what common sense gun laws would stop mentally insane people or violent criminals from making zip guns or just outright stealing them from people?
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 My hunch is that most insane people are incapable of building their own guns. They probably don't have much trouble making knives though...
I wonder what you would think of the OWS protesters if after they were pepper sprayed, they began exercising their 2nd Amendment rights? Would you have strongly supported the protesters after they killed a few of the aggressive law enforcement officers who were stripping them of their guaranteed 1st Amendment rights???
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider I am only telling you why the second ammendment is there. If you had any hunting experience you would know that some pistols are used for hunting yes even the evil ones with horns and a tail like the 10mm. There are already laws in place like using a form 4473 which does ask if you are a criminal or mentally ill when you buy a firearm. I do not support crazy people getting firearms but they all want tougher gun legislation and call themselves liberals so I dont have to worry.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 Loopholes in gun laws allow anyone to buy guns at gun shows & from private sellers without filling out any forms or background checks. If you were interested, you could see many YT videos showing how easy it is for anyone to buy guns, even those who admit to the seller that they probably couldn't pass background checks. If you are against any common sense gun laws, then you support sales to the mentally insane & unstable. This isn't a Liberal or Conservative issue...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider the right to bear arms has nothing to do with deerhunting or sports and it was a deer hunting rifle that Jason Kerns used to shoot down a police helicopter in Albuquerque in 2005. The right to bear arms is about fighting a tyrannical government should it become necessary or defending our homes should the government become uncapable of defending our borders. Show me where the constitution says we have a right to bear arms for deer hunting only.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 So are you ready to rise up right now to fight the US govt? Do you believe that the US govt is about to come after you? Have you joined a local militia? How long do you think you would last in a shootout with law enforcement officers? You sound paranoid. Do you think you should be able to buy missiles & grenades too? Do you believe that the insane & unstable should be able to buy guns & ammo too? Are you against all common sense gun laws???
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider You still have not answered my question? If posession of knives and stabbing tools are against the law in prison why are prisoners and guards still being stabbed?
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 It's not difficult to turn a plastic spoon into a stabbing tool in prison. It's much more difficult to turn one into a gun...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 You know nothing about firearms and even less about criminals. Look up the terms "Zipgun" and "Saturday night special"
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 Since I grew up with guns in a hunting family, I would have to politely but strongly disagree with your inaccurate assertion. You shouldn't try to assume anything about people you've never met & know nothing about. You still haven't answered my question. Do you believe that gun dealers should be able to sell weapons to anyone who can afford them, including the mentally insane & unstable???
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider Most of the weapons taken from cartels were bought legally from the US by the Mexican law enforcement or the Mexican military and then sold to the cartels. Even US police sell thier firearms to Mexican cartels just look at what happened in Columbus, New Mexico. Cops can buy fully autos for department use even if there was an assault weapons ban so how does strict gun laws stop that.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 Actually, the majority of weapons being used by the Mexican Cartels were bought legally in the US at gun shows with no background checks. Even the insane can buy these US guns legally. In Tucscon, Jared Loughner was subdued only when he tried to change clips. Loughner was using a 31 bullet clip outlawed in several states. Fewer would have been injured & killed if common sense laws had banned the sale of these clips. Assault weapons are lousy deer hunting guns...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@nightrider no legislation or law that restricts firearms will stop the fighting in mexico or stop the violence in this country. Stabbing weapons and knives are not allowed in prison but there are still people being stabbed to death in prison. It is against the law to make explosives but that did not stop Ted Kyzynski a Harvard grad by the way or Timothy Mcveigh a former army sergeant. This is the same point I make to conservatives about legal weed people still use it anyway so legalize it.
commo842001 1 month ago
@commo842001 When weapons are hard to obtain, it's less likely that they'll be used as often. This is easy to see. Since nuclear weapons are nearly impossible to buy, we don't see them being regularly used to wipe cities off the map. US weapons are easy to obtain here in the US, so a great many are being bought here & shipped into Mexico & Mexico is paying a heavy price. Laws can't prevent crazy people from doing crazy things, but they can make it much more difficult to succeed.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
Maybe teabaggers in the Tea Party can help me out with something. Why do teabaggers in the Tea Party take offense to the name teabagger? they're the one who teabag & are always talking about teabagging, such as; "Teabag the White House", "Teabag President Obama", "Teabag the Health Care Bill", "Teabag the Democrats", etc. If you act, you're an actor. If you sing, you're a singer. If you paint, you're a painter. So, if you teabag, you're a teabagger.Nothing disrespectful about that name
TheMultioscarwinner 2 months ago
@nightrider You can thank the botched ATF sting for some those guns that made it into mexico under the Obama administration. Some of the weapons that were smuggled came from the Colombus, New Mexico police force. The police can get military grade firearms no matter what the laws are. Laws mean nothing to criminals.
commo842001 2 months ago
@commo842001 The ATF Fast & Furious program only accounts for a small percentage of weapons that freely flow into Mexico every year. Our lax gun laws make it extremely easy for the cartel to buy weapons in the US & export them into Mexico, where they are being used to wage a bloody & deadly drug war against the Mexican govt. Are you aware that the ATF program originated during GW's tenure? Would you support gun & ammo sales to the mentally insane & unstable???
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
@NightriderXP1 Most of the weapons being supplied come from the Mexican military and are bought from corrupt federale and high ranking mexican soldiers. There is no place in the United States that manufactures Russian RPGs or sells live Grenades. The American weapons are bought legally by the Mexican government then sold or traded to the cartels. Violent crime in this country has decreased since the sunset of the Assault weapons ban explain that.
commo842001 2 months ago
@commo842001 Most of the weapons being used in Mexico's deadly & bloody drug war were made in the good ol' USA. These weapons freely flow across the border. These guns are easily purchased at gun shows thanks to the NRA's war against common sense. You failed to answer whether you support selling guns & ammo to the mentally insane & unstable. Are there any gun regulations that you would support or should gun dealers be allowed to sell any weapon to anyone who can pay the price???
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
@commo842001 Maybe you can help me out with something. Why do teabaggers in the Tea Party take offense to the name teabagger? they're the one who teabag & are always talking about teabagging, such as; "Teabag the White House", "Teabag President Obama", "Teabag the Health Care Bill", "Teabag the Democrats", etc. If you act, you're an actor. If you sing, you're a singer. If you paint, you're a painter. So, if you teabag, you're a teabagger.Nothing disrespectful about that name
TheMultioscarwinner 2 months ago
@nightriderXP1 The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow
the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all
conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms
have prepared their own downfall by so doing.-Adolph Hitler
commo842001 2 months ago
@commo842001 No one is trying to take your guns away from you. US Gun dealers have been using this lie to promote their sales though. It's odd that Republicans/Libertarians are fighting hard to make it harder for Americans to vote, yet they're trying to make it easier for anyone to buy guns. Even though there were several in the crowd carrying weapons in Tucson, no one was able to stop Jared Loughner from killing 6 people. One guy nearly shot another innocent armed guy though...
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
@nightriderXP1 If you like Canada so much maybe you should move there. I live closer to Mexico and if we disarm these poor American farmers along the border dealing with armed mexican military incursions across our border and drug smugglers then we are screwing American citizens out the right to defend thier property. If you had your way they would be using hunting rifles against people with fully automatic rifles. Oh wait Obama says the border is secure so it must be true.
commo842001 2 months ago
@commo842001 Why would you tell those who disagree with you to leave the country? Canadians live together, own guns, & have a lower % of gun violence than the US. Canada also has stricter gun laws too. Gun & ammo dealers use Obama to promote their their sales even though Obama has never tried to pass gun legislation. Are you aware that there are more US natl guards patrolling the Mexican border than during GW's tenure? US guns freely flowing into Mexico are killing thousands...
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
@nightriderXP1 I am angry that union thugs force people out of work. I had to work for my uncle moving scrap iron when I was twelve because I could not get a job to help my mom because of that dumb child labor law. Some environmental laws actually empower the monopoly on oil. I would prefer common sense gun legislation. Mexico has more stringent gun laws but more gun violence. The US has 312,822,000 people Canada only has 34,605,346 people.
commo842001 2 months ago
@commo842001 Unions haven't forced anyone out of work. Tax cuts for the wealthy have allowed businesses to offshore those jobs & industries since they no longer have to reinvest in their employees & businesses to avoid paying taxes. With unemployment high, how does adding children to the workforce benefit the working class? Let's end Social Security too so that the elderly also have to fight for those limited jobs. When companies hire children, they don't pay living wages...
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
@NightriderXP1
There's no point in arguing with you, those politicians are not libertarian. There was never a "libertarian experiment". I have no idea where you got that shit. The closest we got to that was Jefferson in the early 1800's, which I would hardly call a failure. The "deregulation" that the neocons began overwhelmingly favored the largest corporations at the time, because they lobbied for it personally. That is not libertarianism, that is corporatism - THAT has failed
VegitoVai90 2 months ago
@VegitoVai90 If Rand & Ron Paul aren't Libertarian, no one is. The Libertarian experiment began in 1980 when Reagan became POTUS. To them, govt isn't the solution, but it's the problem. So after 5 decades of economic prosperity that built our great middle class, they switched to Trickle Down Economics & deregulation. This succeeded in redistributing wealth upward to the wealthy minority at the expense of everyone else. Their idea was to repeal the successes of the 20th Century.
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
@NightriderXP1
Reagan was a neocon. He escalated the drug war, raised taxes for everyone but the wealthy, and boosted defense spending. That is the opposite of libertarianism. Also, supply side economics is still government intervention, which is also antithetical. I'll spell it out for you - Reagan's rhetoric was merely that - rhetoric. He and the Bush's were just as regulatory as any liberal, except they regulated in favor of the largest corporations. Again, not libertarian.
VegitoVai90 2 months ago
@VegitoVai90 You seem to be defining Libertarianism as a monolithic ideology. Which form of Libertarianism do you use to define the entire group: libertarian socialism, consequentialist, contractarian, communism, or deontological? Reagan had neocons in his administration, such as Jeanne Kirkpatrick, but he also appointed Libertarian Alan Greenspan to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Reaganomics was a Libertarian economic model intended to Starve the Beast & shrink the govt...
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
@commo842001 Are you old enough to remember when every large city in the US had a brown cloud hanging over them? Do you remember when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire? Businesses aren't good at protecting the environment or communities. Remember the Bopal disaster? Why you be bothered by environmental laws that protect you?
The % of gun related violence is far higher in the US than Canada. Mexico is fighting a bloody Civil War, thanks to our War on Drugs & US weapons.
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
@nightriderXP1 I am angry that union thugs force people out of work. I had to work for my uncle moving scrap iron when I was twelve because I could not get a job to help my mom because of that dumb child labor law. Some environmental laws actually empower the monopoly on oil. I would prefer common sense gun legislation like safety classes and better background checks. Mexico has more stringent gun laws but more gun violence. The US has 312,822,000 people Canada only has 34,605,346 people.
commo842001 2 months ago
@nightriderXP1 for one we have liberal teachers using schools to force thier views on my kids and a legal system that says I have to allow it or my kids will be taken from me. I for one would like to let my children decide for themselves. Since the expiration of the Assault weapons ban crime has decreased in this country and liberals want to bring back a sensless ban that was useless considering the columbine massacre happened during the "assault" weapons ban. Cars kill more people every year.
commo842001 2 months ago
@commo842001 Which Liberal views are your kids being taught that you dislike? Are you angry that Liberals fought for & won protections for workers? Do you dislike the 40 hour work week, overtime pay, vacation pay, unemployment benefits, child labor laws, environmental laws, etc? I'm not sure why gun legislation bothers you. Would you prefer that the criminally insane have easier access to guns? We're a violent nation. It's odd that Canada experiences far less gun violence...
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
Most humans are assholes myself included. The only difference is there are a few of us willing to admit it. Everyone else lives in denial and they think that they are better or superior in some way. Liberals are assholes for wanting to take away our individual freedoms and conservatives are assholes for selling out our collective freedom for a quick buck. All assholes living in denial.
commo842001 2 months ago
@commo842001 Since your view of most humans is so negative, I'm not surprised that you can't see good in any group. There's no way to have a constructive conversation with someone with such negative views because it's clear that nothing discussed could possibly sway you. You'd see a great many decent people if you opened your eyes & mind to see them. I feel sorry for you since life can't possibly be worth living. What individual freedoms do you believe Liberals took from you???
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
NightriderXP1 Ha Ha Ha I feel sorry for you if you really believe that garbage. One groups brand of insanity is no better than another groups brand of insanity because in the end it is still just madness. Liberals are just as bad as conservatives just look at Charlie Wrangells tax problems and the Blagovich scandal. I am not conservative or liberal I think both sides are extremist and dumb for being to divided to look at the real problem. The mass bank financed corruption of our government.
commo842001 2 months ago
@commo842001 You're making a huge mistake in your argument by condemning a whole group based on the actions of a few. By your logic, since some humans are assholes, that means that all humans are assholes. Of course my hunch is that you won't ever try to make that association. Then again, perhaps you will? If you dislike all the Liberal policies that you benefit from every single day, I can understand why you might equate Liberalism to extremism. I doubt that most would agree.
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
I am biracial and I think Bill Maher is stuck on racism. There is no political party that is correct or better. All political parties are owned and funded by the banks. The only color that matters is green.
commo842001 2 months ago
@commo842001 I will have to disagree with you on several points. If Maher saw a rape then talked about it, I don't consider him stuck on the topic. Teabirchers tend to have trouble hiding their racist instincts...
Conservatives from BOTH parties are puppets for the wealthy. The GOP is 100% Conservative. The Dems have about 25% Conservatives. Liberals aren't easily bought by the wealthy. There are no Liberal Republicans but approx 75% Liberal Dems. The parties are different.
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
'what freedoms exactly has he taken away?' good question, what freedoms exactly has obama taken away
manphelan 2 months ago
Isn't reverse-racism an admission of racism? That's like a rapist accusing the victim of rape.
duprez2 2 months ago
I don't understand how conservatives think they are conservative. They want to increase
military offense spending and lower taxes for the wealthy which always runs up our national
debt yet they think that Democrates run up the debt. The present wars and economic mess
was handed to Obama yet Repubs want to blame him for them. What is conservative about
never opposing a war and running deficits?
mentalphysicalism 2 months ago
@mentalphysicalism What you describe is a good definition for Conservatism. I see no good reason why anyone would vote for that a Party that only knows how to tear things apart. Where are the projects that made this nation great? We used to think big allowing us to go to the moon, build a nationwide interstate system, damns, & railroads which created jobs. Now they want to starve the govt making it impossible to do anything great. We have lost our way as a nation...
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
240p. We meet again.
hj7397 2 months ago
riiiiight... so conservatives all just hearken back to the racist days. it has nothing to do with financial prosperity.
brettawesome 2 months ago
@brettawesome According to the policy they support so far, they are not actually about financial prosperity, except maybe for a few hundred individuals who already control too much of a nation's wealth to be healthy for the economy.
If their idea were ones that is known to work, then maybe, but they don't. So they don't have much left.
Neosaigo 2 months ago
@Neosaigo I think the tea party have the right idea economically but I think the media may have portrayed them as ignorant white racist trash and reduced their effectiveness. I agree catering to corporations is bad but I think the tea party is different from the republican party in that respect.
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome The MSM worked very hard to whitewash Teabircher nonsense. The MSM helped create & promote the movement. Teabaggers only have themselves to blame for perception that people have of them. If they had denounced & rejected the racists when they reared their ugly heads at their rallies, then the racist label would never have been pinned on the movement. The teabircher movement is attractive the same racist bigots who are attracted to the KKK. GOP=Teabirchers...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 who's the MSM??
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome MSM refers to the Main Stream Media. But MSM is a misnomer. It would be more appropriate to refer to the media as the WSM; i.e. Wall Street Media. These are wealthy corporations that promote their own self interests. Up until recently, GE owned NBC. It wasn't surprising to see NBC promoting the invasion of Iraq since it's a major player in our military industrial complex. FOX, NBC, CBS, & ABC all promote corporate tax cuts, since they all benefit from them...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 oh ok.
well i agree with your assessment of the mainstream media, that theyre in the pockets of big business.
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome The MSM is big business. They are the pockets, the sleeves, the collars, etc. They use the airwaves to promote their bottom line. Most Russians are aware that Pravda is a propaganda network. Unfortunately, few Americans realize that almost everything they hear is geared toward the best interests of the parent companies of these media giants. As the drums beat louder for an invasion of Iran, the MSM won't be "fair & balanced" explaining why it would be a bad idea.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 yeah I think I agree. which is why I'm going to vote for Ron Paul because he is the only right wing candidate who would cut spending more than any other candidate and not go to war w/ Iran. Not to mention his record against being swayed by corporations is flawless.
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome I think most Liberals can agree with Ron Paul on his foreign policy views. But Ron Pauls domestic views would be a disaster for a great many Americans. Ron Paul wants to repeal most of the 20th century that succeeded in building the great middle class. Ron Paul wants to eliminate govt regulation & programs that benefit the working class. If Ron Paul is successful, the wealthy minority will benefit immensely while the majority will lose all of their protections...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 i disagree, mainly because I think most of the corporations' strength comes from deals made with politicians by corporations, not by lack of regulation.
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome Corporations pay politicians to vote for deregulation & lower taxes to increase their profits. This doesn't trickle down to the majority of Americans though. We've seen exactly what these companies do when they aren't regulated. There was a time not that long ago when every major city in the US had a large brown smog clouds floating over them. We have many major EPA sites from companies that dumped toxins in our backyards in order to increase their profits...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 ok i think we're going to have to agree to disagree on your 1st point. the 2nd makes sense in this context, but why the regulations on ANWAR and other oil drilling sites? such an influx of oil into the market would not only decrease prices for the American consumer but also stop a lot of our domestic money from going overseas.
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome After seeing what BP did to the Gulf of Mexico, you should understand why drilling in ANWR could be an extremely bad idea. Also, if all the oil ended up being sold in the US, that could lower our pump prices. What you may not be aware of is that this year, our biggest US EXPORT was gasoline & other fuels. Rather than using it to drive down the price that Americans pay, the oil is added to the world market. Opening ANWR to drilling won't lower prices at the pump...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@brettawesome the # 1 thing we've heard them complain about was his damn freaking birth certificate..pointing fingers...where are the great ideas?????
Em183 2 months ago
@Em183 If you're waiting for great ideas from the GOP, you're going to have a long wait. This is a party of obstruction & No. Their only purpose in life is to make sure the economy can't recover for their own political gain. So they deal with non issues. The other day, the House passed a bill to create a bust of Churchill because Obama returned the one that had been in the White House. The House has dealt with religious issues but haven't put any effort into resolving unemployment...
NightriderXP1 2 months ago
@Em183 wikipedia says it's conservative and libertarian. I do think a return to libertarian policies would increase american prosperity.
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome The US is currently suffering from Libertarian policies. Cutting regulations only helps the corporations whose sole purpose is to increase profits. They don't use morality in making their decisions. If you like breathing clean air, eating safe food, working in safe working conditions, etc, you favor regulations. If you favor tax cuts for the wealthy & deregulation, it hurts the majority for the benefit of the few. Libertarian policies only benefit the wealthy...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 You're confusing libertarian policies with traditional republican policies. Libertarian policies would help everyone, whereas republican policies cater to big businesses & corporations.
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome Libertarian policies would hurt everyone except for the wealthy. Libertarians believe in small govt. The wealthy don't like to be burdened by regulations, like clean air & water regulations, safe working conditions, 40 hour work week, unemployment, etc. Providing employee benefits & protections cut into corp profits. Can you think of any successful country that is based on Libertarian principles? It sounds good on paper, but it would be a disaster in real life...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 I'm pretty sure the founding fathers were libertarian. They feared tyrannical governments above all else and thus established America. Also, when you cut into their profits too much domestically they outsource jobs, taking their investments overseas to poorer nations who will work for less.
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome When the US middle class was thriving, there were many 3rd world nations that had huge workforces that would have worked for slave wages. Why did corps hire Americans & pay them decent wages then? At the time, corp tax rates were high, so to avoid paying taxes, these companies "decreased" their profits by reinvesting in their businesses & employees. Now that taxes are low, corps don't have to work hard to evade paying taxes, so they offshore our jobs & industries.
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 what period of time are you referring to exactly?
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome After our Great Depression, New Deal policies helped create our great middle class. This was when the 40 hr work week, unemployment insurance, holiday pay, Social Security, Medicare, etc were passed, which benefit the vast majority of Americans. Why didn't business offshore at that time? Their employees were now costing them far more. Corp taxes increased to as high as 91%, forcing them to reinvest in their businesses, decreasing profits to avoid paying taxes...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago
@NightriderXP1 i don't think any of those programs are necessary for each and every case. I think they may provide stability, but all of those programs could come from private businesses like insurances. If the individual doesn't like the entity theyre going to work for or the benefits, why go to work for them?
brettawesome 1 month ago
@brettawesome Before the Great Depression, there were no protections. The elderly were our poorest population. A great many were homeless. It only takes one medical emergency to bankrupt someone. Our New Deal programs created a stable environment that helped created the middle class. Now people don't have to work until they drop dead. Social Security & Medicare are both very successful & beneficial programs. Privatizing them only increases costs while decreasing benefits...
NightriderXP1 1 month ago 3
, , , , And the Lord Jeehovah came unto them and sayeth. Go ye forth and break bread with the Caaneenittes. Break bread also with the Sodomittes. Bu break ye not any bread with the Baggerittes. For I , the Lord God, shall break wind upon them and send them scurrying thinot the desert wasteland seeking fresh air. Amen
FoxsNewsReport 2 months ago
idk i kinda like capitalism
D3r3ct0rsCut 2 months ago
Conservatism; the toilet paper of the political world. Flush it. And move on.
FoxsNewsReport 3 months ago
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"gov't. isn't the problem, conservatism is"!
that's as well thought out as it gets, nightrider.............tehe!
let's see. fiscal conservatism says you should have money BEFORE you spend it. sounds more sensible to me than SPENDING MONEY YOU DON'T HAVE.
"LIBERAL CONGRESS CRITTERS ARE FIGHTING FOR MY RIGHTS"?????
company paid pensions are all but gone, health insurance costs are outta sight, and we're still involved militarily all over the world.
them "critters"must be responsible, too!
graysonTW 3 months ago
@graysonTW Liberals aren't taking away pensions or raising health insurance rates. Look at who is voting for what. You'll find that Conservatives from BOTH parties vote to benefit the very wealthy. Voting for Conservative candidates, gets more of the same. I understand that you don't care about your fellow Americans & want to benefit the wealthy in every way possible. I'm not sure why though since the wealthy really don't care about you. Why vote against your own best economic interests???
NightriderXP1 3 months ago 9
OK...so first he says religion is bad because it was delusional...then he tells us that the 50's were not so good because it was bad for all the people who did not built the country in the first place...who built AMERICA...white men did. Who saved the jews from Hitler...white men did...who abolished slavery...white men...who gave women rights...white men...who let gays have Pride Day...once again...whitey!!!! Fuck off idiots before you wreck our country by pulling your race/jew cards!
chefshitpiece 3 months ago
@chefshitpiece I'll give you only 1 warning. I won't tolerate racism in this video discussion. To believe your comment, you have to ignore the contributions of all the non whites that helped build this country. You have to ignore the contributions of non whites who have fought to defend this nation too. Your whole comment is silly. Hitler was white. White men promoted slavery. Women, gays, blacks, Asians, Latinos, etc have all contributed to this country. Why ignore their contributions?
NightriderXP1 3 months ago
@NightriderXP1 How is it racist to point out that the vast majority of the development of this nation were due to the physical work, innovative developments, and wartime casualities of white christian men? Im not saying that blacks made no contributions, an their descendents are entitled to fair restitution, but the fact is that the bulk of the workload was done by a white nation. You are being disrespectful of America's fallen soldiers when you try to rewrite history to suit yourself.
chefshitpiece 3 months ago
@chefshitpiece The US has been a melting pot since its inception. The White House was built by black slaves. Ignoring the accomplishments of non whites who have also built the country that we live in & fought side by side with whites to protect us is racism. They've fought against persecution, intolerance, ignorance, hate, prejadism, etc. Don't rewrite history to exclude the contributions of non whites. Minorities didn't choose to be enslaved by white landowners. They fought for freedom...
NightriderXP1 3 months ago
@NightriderXP1 But even since its inception it was a melting pot from European countries that had a shared sense of religious, political, historical, and moral identity. Yes there were slaves who helped built this nation and their ancestors deserve a piece of the pie, but that does not justify an anything-goes-open-border policy that alters a sense of national cohesion. ANY nation must have a core of group identity or it will last about as long as a human body with no skeletal structure.
chefshitpiece 3 months ago
@chefshitpiece The slaves weren't European. The men "recruited" to build our nat'l railway were Asian, Chinese to be exact. Latinos have been populating much of the southern US since Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba. Since the white population is predicted to cease to be the majority race in the US by 2050, do you believe that the US won't be able to exist when it no longer has a white "core"? The US became a successful nation because of diversity & hard work, not because of white DNA...
NightriderXP1 3 months ago
@NightriderXP1 It wasnt really as diverse as you say. Only 2% of Americans owned slaves. If every American owned a slave then they would not be a minority. Do the math. Yes the Chinese built the railways, and their descendents are owed a piece of the pie. But to hear it from you whites didnt do anything. The Japanese built a great nation, so its not a 'white gene' thing. But they built it by working hard, not by playing any sympathy cards. That is the path to failure, not success.
chefshitpiece 3 months ago