tkdguy Posted February 12 Report Share Posted February 12 L. Marcus, Pariah and DShomshak 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 5 hours ago, DShomshak said: I try to resist clickbait, but this was just too funny when it turned up in my front-page newsfeed. You wanna talk reclaiming historic territories of your great, great empire? Mongolia has a comment or two. Mongolia's former president mocks Putin with a map showing how big the Mongol empire used to be, and how small Russia was (msn.com) Dean Shomshak The Mongol Empire was bigger than Russia is today. In fact it was bigger than the Russian Empire ever was, or the Soviet Union. Only Britain's colonial empire was more vast. And Mongols dominated Russia for three centuries. All this historical-precedent mythology Putin's spouting is just a reskinning of manifest destiny, or jingoism, or crusade/jihad, or whatever imperialist rationale you care to cite. Borders are drawn according to who has power, and what they want to do with it. It's always been that way. wcw43921 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said: The Mongol Empire was bigger than Russia is today. In fact it was bigger than the Russian Empire ever was, or the Soviet Union. Only Britain's colonial empire was more vast. And Mongols dominated Russia for three centuries. All this historical-precedent mythology Putin's spouting is just a reskinning of manifest destiny, or jingoism, or crusade/jihad, or whatever imperialist rationale you care to cite. Borders are drawn according to who has power, and what they want to do with it. It's always been that way. Starlord and Lawnmower Boy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 Texas Judge Hands Joe Biden Big Win (msn.com) Ternaugh, Cygnia and Old Man 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 And in yet another example that House Republicans prefer to run a circus than run a government....they managed to get the Mayorkas impeachment vote through. 214-213. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 Trying to divert attention from their paradoxical flip-flops on the border security bill(s). They're desperate for anything they can sell to their voters as actually doing something. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 16 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: Trying to divert attention from their paradoxical flip-flops on the border security bill(s). They're desperate for anything they can sell to their voters as actually doing something. Those voters are firmly ensconced in the conservabubble, so it'll work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cygnia Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 1 Killed, At Least 22 Wounded In Shooting Near Kansas City Chiefs Victory Parade Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 No motive yet for the shooting. Elsewhere...RFK Jr. apologized for that *bizarre* Super Bowl ad. He claims it was his SuperPAC's creation...and not approved. Yes, well, that never flies very well, does it? The family's irate...apparently not for the first time. His campaign staff is also leaving...even before the ad...citing malfeasance at the upper echelons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. MID-Nite Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 2 hours ago, Cygnia said: 1 Killed, At Least 22 Wounded In Shooting Near Kansas City Chiefs Victory Parade I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you... 😣 Sigh.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rails Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 I think that's the first time violence has broken out at a Chiefs (or Royals, not that there have been many of those) parade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 18 minutes ago, Rails said: I think that's the first time violence has broken out at a Chiefs (or Royals, not that there have been many of those) parade. Has there ever been a shooting at that kind of parade? I can readily enough see fist fights occasionally, but a shooting? No. Granted, not many shootings register for all that long, but it's bizarre for it to relate to the parade, IMO. EDIT: DOH! Denver's title celebration last year. Well, we'll likely hear more over the next few days. TRY to find an impartial jury for when this goes to trial. I mean, seriously, a significant fraction of KC was there, and *schools were closed*...LOTS of kids were at the parade and IIRC several were hit. Impartiality might be as uncommon as Bronco fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Frankly, in many sporting events around the world, it's notable when nobody was killed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 2 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: Frankly, in many sporting events around the world, it's notable when nobody was killed. But that's the events...and a bit of hyperbole, altho not nearly as much as I'd like. The parade? I re-checked the Denver incident; report is the timing was largely coincidental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/13/2223296/-My-Thoughts-on-Biden-As-Someone-With-Actual-Cognitive-Dysfunction?detail=emaildkre&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email Ternaugh, Lord Liaden, DShomshak and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Thank you. Just the thing to refer people to who keep repeating that canard because the guy who almost certainly has real cognitive dysfunction keeps throwing out that slander. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 Even if Biden's cognitively impaired, I'll take him over a (much more) cognitively and morally impaired Trump. Pariah, tkdguy and TrickstaPriest 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 A recent The Daily episode dealt with Biden's supposed senility. The reporter noted that Biden has a very long history of mixing up names and sentences that wander off into unexpected territory. Also addressed the cognitive advantages of old age: less glib, but better judgment. Slower speed, but better aim, so to speak. I am reminded here of the assessment of someone who knows former House Speaker Newt Gingrich well. In ten minutes the man can be relied on to come out with ten startling, original, and superficially brilliant ideas... half of which contradict the other half, and nine out of ten of which turn out to be batsh*t insane once you look at them closely. Really, not someone I would want with his hand on The Big Red Button. As I grow older myself, I place greater value on temperament than cleverness. I trust Biden to at least try to do the right thing, even if I may disagree with him about what the right thing is. Dean Shomshak Pariah, Ternaugh, tkdguy and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 The "Biden gaff" has been a running joke in Washington for half a century. Him occasionally misspeaking, or saying something impulsively, isn't new, it's always been part of him. When Biden was Obama's VP, Obama joked that his advisers wanted him to follow his teleprompter less when he spoke in public, but wanted Biden to follow it more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted February 15 Report Share Posted February 15 On 2/14/2024 at 8:31 AM, Old Man said: Oh, wow. This probably isn't the place for it, but it's kinda political. So, anyway, I devoured the British show Slow Horses on Apple recently, and it was promoting Mark Wahlberg's Family Plan pretty hard, and it looked like light hearted fun, so I gave it a whirl recently. I know Wahlberg as a pretty personable guy, and that was definitely on show from the first minute of the movie and I could go on at length, but there is a lot off about the movie, of which the bit about the very well developed tendency for the bad, worse, and worst characters to be non-White, bothered me the most. I think I now understand the decision making processes that went into this movie better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/politics/fbi-informant-bidens-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V00.Tqtn.9Qr_0dO2kxGv&smid=url-share Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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