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Quote: Tanko

They were a one act circus for the past five years, preying on the screwballs.

Without Trump fake news to please the screwballs, CИИ has lost 1,000,000 prime time viewers each night, since the election, and MSNBC has lost half as many.

Interesting that they are only focusing on viewership numbers since the election..... (and conveniently ignoring Fox’s viewership dropping as well).

Of course less people are watching cable news now vs. around election time. The clown show has been canceled!

https://summit.news/2021/03/18/former-head-of-group-that-sponsors-drag-queen-story-hour-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/

Who'da?

Quote: petroglyph

https://summit.news/2021/03/18/former-head-of-group-that-sponsors-drag-queen-story-hour-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges/

Who'da?

Cant trust anybody
Look at one of the biggest supporters of kids in my lifetime. The good guys. The boy scouts. Talk about predators.

Texas museum removes wax Trump figure after visitors kept punching it.

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A wax museum in downtown San Antonio, Texas, removed its wax statue of former President Trump .

Louis Tussaud's Waxworks pulled the figure from public view after it sustained multiple beatings, and transferred it into storage.

Quote: rxwine

Texas museum removes wax Trump figure after visitors kept punching it.

TDS is still strong. Talk about a group of people needing to get a life.

Quote: AZDuffman

TDS is still strong. Talk about a group of people needing to get a life.

"Louis Tussaud's Waxworks pulled the figure from public view after it sustained multiple beatings, and transferred it into storage."

Dumb monkeys trained by the democrat party. Getting theirs in spades. Millions headed to the borders to take their jobs and drive up their food and housing costs. Ford moving a factory from Ohio to Mexico, after the UAW endorsed Biden. Idiots always get what they deserve.

Quote: rxwine

I don't know that's it always an easy call, but I think it has a purpose. Vandals spray paint your car, vs vandals that spray paint nazi symbols and other anti-Semitic things and you're Jewish. That makes it potentially beyond random vandalism to personal and associated with pretty bad historical precedents up to and including torture, slavery and death.

This is along the lines of what my response was going to be.

For something like murder, no, I don't understand the purpose of differentiating between hate and non-hate crimes. I think it would be more efficient to just call murder--murder and you have the only possibilities for a punishment be imprisonment for the rest of a person's natural life, or the death penalty. I'm not saying that we should get rid of second-degree or third-degree murder (and the lesser punishments associated therewith) just that First Degree murder is First Degree murder regardless of underlying motivations.

The deceased certainly doesn't care if it's charged as a hate crime or not; they're too busy being dead.

RXWine points out that some crimes have can have an element of hate to them by which they should be treated differently, and I agree with that perspective. Property crimes (such as the one mentioned), simple assault, battery, arson...I think there should be the potential for more lengthy punishments for those sorts of crimes if there is a provable element of (racial, cultural or religious) hate to them.

Quote: odiousgambit

definitely what we have now

I look at the years leading up to the publication of 1984 and it occurs to me that we may well have been ill-taught on this novel and that there's the perception of some to this day that it was meant to be prescient.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I look at the novel as being more of a dark satire than as being meant to be predictive.

Quote: Mission146

I look at the years leading up to the publication of 1984 and it occurs to me that we may well have been ill-taught on this novel and that there's the perception of some to this day that it was meant to be prescient.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I look at the novel as being more of a dark satire than as being meant to be predictive.

I always thought it was a successor though not a direct sequel to "Animal Farm." In Animal Farm we saw how a dictatorship takes over and subdues. In "1984" we see what life is like years later. Whether it was intended to be predictive or not it very much has been. Right down to people putting Alexa in their homes so they can be listened in on.

Quote: Tanko

Dumb monkeys trained by the democrat party. Getting theirs in spades.

I'm thrilled. Weakest Dem candidate ever beat Trump, an incumbent. ROTFL

Quote: Tanko

Millions headed to the borders to take their jobs and drive up their food and housing costs.

Retired, dont need a job.
live in a rv, dont want a house

Quote: Tanko

Ford moving a factory from Ohio to Mexico, after the UAW endorsed Biden.

Cool
If this means Ford stock goes up, I'm all for it
Anything that helps the market helps me
Interesting how conservatives are silent on the booming market