That was a ‘cool’ battle scene.

But as far as the most ‘realistic’ battle scenes go, I remember sitting in a theater watching “Saving Private Ryan” and during the Normandy beach scene an old man sitting near me with tears running down his face told his wife that that was exactly what it was like.

wv wrote:

Zooey wrote:

It is very difficult to imagine, at this point, that there is not a significant problem.

I no longer think we are looking at just the sole act of dumping DNC emails in an effort to tip the scales towards Trump. This isn’t just about a foreign policy preference.

There is an entire tangled web of financial shadiness happening here, and I can’t see the administration surviving an honest inquiry. Even if the financial stuff is all “legal,” there are clearly significant ties here that completely compromise Trump’s ability to be impartial on behalf of the USA. He is in this up to his neck in all likelihood, and clearly Tillerson and Ross are without question.

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Well Its not that i disagree with your description of the ‘tangled web of financial shadiness’ but…I dont thihk the the ‘american people’ are gonna care.
I mean Trumps base certainly wont care. And the Dems have zero credibility themselves so whatever they do will look like the usual partisanship-games.

I just think we are past the time when a President can be impeached. The entire system is now BASED on corruption and money and money-influence. The SYSTEM should be ‘impeached’ but it wont be.

Frankly, i think Trump would be more likely to get in trouble for a sex scandal or some BS crap like that. THAT might annoy the voters. Ah well.

wv cynic

It’s true that Trump’s supporters won’t care. But the majority of the American people care. Trump was the first president ever elected with an approval rating below 50%. Then it got worse. I’m sure his speech gave him a bump up but it won’t last.

The problem is that Congress in controlled by the Republicans. And Trump is doing exactly what the Republicans always wanted (increase military spending, decrease domestic spending, dismantle environmental protections, etc) so why would they impeach him? And even if they did, they won’t impeach Trump’s VP and his cabinet, so impeaching him probably wouldn’t change much.

So ultimately, you’re right. There’s no bright side to be had. The stuff Trump has put in motion won’t be reversed for at least four years and by then, if it happens, a lot of stuff is gonna be irrevocably f’d up.

I prefer the single solid stripe like they wore in the 60s. However, I think wearing blue and white pants while the jersey and helmet still have gold is sorta stupid. I don’t like this piecemeal approach to changing the uniform. I know why they’re doing this…they want to keep the fans interested – especially given the lousy season they just had and the Chargers arrival – but still… Just leave the uniforms alone until the big unveiling in 2019.

Zooey wrote:

I think it’s time for a split, and I was rather hoping for the announcement of a new party in the wake of this latest DNC bullshit.

Yeah. I think things are bleak regardless but if I’m going down at least I want to go down fighting in a party of compatriots who share my core principles. A party I could finally be proud to be a member of.

Commander of the raid that took out bin Laden calls Trump the greatest threat to democracy based on his anti-media stance…

Link;
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/02/23/greatest-threat-to-democracy-commander-of-bin-laden-raid-slams-trumps-anti-media-sentiment/

Well, arresting people for merely planning a protest is in direct violation of the 1st amendment. I mean, that should be obvious, right?

Right?

Calling those people researchers is sort of a stretch. They aren’t really conducting research – not in the scientific sense at least. They have already decided Bigfoot/UFOs/Ghosts exist and are cherry picking evidence that fits that belief, although even then their ‘evidence’ is about as flimsy as it could be.

Besides, everyone knows Bigfoot/UFOs and their ilk were invented by the US government to distract us from the kaiju portal located in what is now known as Area 51.

Well Jack, on here you can post about any topic you like so if you are bored by the lack of activity here the simple solution is to post more often. The trick is to post about stuff that not only you are interested in but also stuff that you think the other people here would be interested in based on their posting history. That will lead to more activity.

I saw it and really enjoyed it too. Apparently, linguists love it…

Link: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=arrival

However, here’s a review from a physicist that didn’t care for it…

Beware…there be spoilers here…

Link: http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2017/02/15/film-review-arrival-2016/

zn wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

He tapped into a vein of concealed bigotry that is now gushing like an oil well in Texas.

I agree with this. And this is a huge portion of how I see it. American right-wing populism has a long deep history of both overt and “under the radar” bigotry. The problem is that many of the people who are most affected by bad economic policies are not particularly interested in analyzing those issues as being economic.

It’s a world where muslims defiantly kill western whites at will so we are war with a religion, and black lives matter types defy ordinary law and order. All of that has gotten worse (from that perspective) in the last couple of years.

You subtract that component and trump doesn’t even win in the republican primaries.

I actually don’t see much of interest in the effort to claim Trump as the bad prophet who tapped into people’s economic malaise. I think it is far more accurate to say he tapped into their ordinary american right-populist racism and xenophobia.

This is why you don’t see any backlash against his economic policies and appointments. Most of his supporters don’t even know about the term “neoliberalism” and so are in no position to notice that if anything, he is a far more dangerous neoliberal crusader than any non-republican who did run against him or (to cast the net wider) even might have opposed him if the primaries had gone differently. To the trumpists, this stuff just does not register. It’s not what counts about him to those who support him.

Bigotry is about fear of the ‘other’. Even though you are more likely to be killed by a toddler with a gun in this country than you are by a Muslim terrorist, somehow Muslim terrorists are the supreme threat to our sovereignty. The GOP has successfully been massaging that ‘fear of the other’ for decades. It’s all a misdirection. Dangle those brown illegal immigrants in front of them to keep them from seeing how our economic policies are killing them.

I see it differently. While that may be true for a portion of them I still believe the majority are low information voters who vote on emotion and feelings and are easily stirred up by the Rush Limbaughs of the world and believe that the government in the enemy–without knowing all the details or that this is not simply a black and white fact.

Yeah, that’s how see it.

And the things we complain about on this board – the most heinous things like the Muslim ban or his disastrous picks to head up the Dept of Education, the EPA or for Attorney General? His supporters either agree completely with the selectiosn or they don’t care. Instead of being taken aback by his fascist rhetoric regarding the press they cheer him on. I’m getting more and more tired of hearing about how Trump’s power comes from the marginalized working class. He tapped into a vein of concealed bigotry that is now gushing like an oil well in Texas.

My great fear is the American public eventually becomes so desensitized to the constant deluge of egregious acts coming from the Trump administration and the GOP that it eventually becomes conditioned to a new ‘normality’ where the people just shrug their shoulders in response to the ongoing fascism. Instead of resisting it, they just take comfort the fact that it could be worse…

“What? They’re moving Muslim Americans into internment camps? Well, at least they’re not shooting them. That’s something, right?”

zn wrote:

There’s some missing puzzle pieces with this whole Gurley/OL/scheme/can’t run story.

Nothing I read about it clears it up either. It just adds more pieces, and ones are still missing.

Yeah, Gurley and the o-line not being on the same page is something I’ve never heard of before regarding the critique of a running back. That is just bizarre and I don’t have a clue what the cause for that would be…

To an extent, morality is hardwired in humans…

Link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111007161636.htm

The beginnings of a sense of morality can be seen in other species…

Link: http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2017/02/12/dogs-and-monkeys-do-not-like-humans-who-act-negatively-towards-other-humans/