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[budman]

From the sink

It's a 'blue vs red thing' because it's the right who've gone to war against an otherwise-benign movie. Why do you think Ted Cruz is railing against it, playing the role of Patricia Pulling for Cuties? Why is that movie bad, but this is ok?

 

[budman]

From the sink by CABilly

More than 500 years ago, Christopher Columbus’s intrepid voyage to the New World ushered in a new era of exploration and discovery. His travels led to European contact with the Americas and, a century later, the first settlements on the shores of the modern day United States. Today, we celebrate Columbus Day to commemorate the great Italian who opened a new chapter in world history and to appreciate his enduring significance to the Western Hemisphere.

When Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María it marked the beginning of a new era in human history. For Italian Americans, Christopher Columbus represents one of the first of many immeasurable contributions of Italy to American history. As a native of Genoa, Columbus inspired early immigrants to carry forth their rich Italian heritage to the New World. Today, the United States benefits from the warmth and generosity of nearly 17 million Italian Americans, whose love of family and country strengthen the fabric of our Nation. For our beautiful Italian American communities — and Americans of every background –Columbus remains a legendary figure.

Sadly, in recent years, radical activists have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus’s legacy. These extremists seek to replace discussion of his vast contributions with talk of failings, his discoveries with atrocities, and his achievements with transgressions. Rather than learn from our history, this radical ideology and its adherents seek to revise it, deprive it of any splendor, and mark it as inherently sinister. They seek to squash any dissent from their orthodoxy. We must not give in to these tactics or consent to such a bleak view of our history. We must teach future generations about our storied heritage, starting with the protection of monuments to our intrepid heroes like Columbus. This June, I signed an Executive Order to ensure that any person or group destroying or vandalizing a Federal monument, memorial, or statue is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I have also taken steps to ensure that we preserve our Nation’s history and promote patriotic education. In July, I signed another Executive Order to build and rebuild monuments to iconic American figures in a National Garden of American Heroes. In September, I announced the creation of the 1776 Commission, which will encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history and honor our founding. In addition, last month I signed an Executive Order to root out the teaching of racially divisive concepts from the Federal workplace, many of which are grounded in the same type of revisionist history that is trying to erase Christopher Columbus from our national heritage. Together, we must safeguard our history and stop this new wave of iconoclasm by standing against those who spread hate and division.

On this Columbus Day, we embrace the same optimism that led Christopher Columbus to discover the New World. We inherit that optimism, along with the legacy of American heroes who blazed the trails, settled a continent, tamed the wilderness, and built the single-greatest nation the world has ever seen.

In commemoration of Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as “Columbus Day.”

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 12, 2020, as Columbus Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of our diverse history and all who have contributed to shaping this Nation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.

DONALD J. TRUMP

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-columbus-day-2020/

 

[Shaggy]

From The Sink

Awesome.

who should he kill first? Pelosi?

ooooops. Political, sorry.

 

[budman]

From the covid forum. Just an edit - bolded portion

i didn't bother reading it and likely won't no disrespect, i just don't believe any opinion from media. if there's a citation i missed (i ctrl+F'd for sourc* and cit* and couldn't find it), i'd give it a read but otherwise it's just another article about kim k's butt, cardi b's pepperonis or donald trumps hands.

 

[budman]

From the sink

LOL at your use of "nice excuse!" My reply is your use of the phrase "nice excuse" hides the fact that your assertion is without merit.



We aren't the most divided country, yet. We aren't even NEAR "shit show" level yet. To think otherwise evidences a wan provincial outlook that borders on the absurd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

https://jolt.richmond.edu/blurred-lines-social-media-in-armed-conflict/

https://peacesciencedigest.org/social-media-changing-conflict/

Social media empowers wars now. Like "war" in the sense of people dying. The partisanship you see in this country is cant political theater.

It's not a shooting war, yet. And I pray it never becomes one.





https://www.salon.com/2020/11/02/el...re-the-chances-of-serious-political-violence/

 

[budman]

From the sink.

Thread moved to Polsink

LOL, I don't talk about my politics.



Things are so divisive right now that people imply politics based on things like whether someone is salty about social media.

I thought the Charlie Chaplin, IWW poster, and Inverted Tolitarianism posts would be sufficient hints on where I personally stand, but I guess not.

My politics are similar to those of George Orwell and Noam Chomsky.

ETA: this is why in the "police reform" thread I pointed out that I support the police. What is happening in this country is that people are looking at surface symptoms, and not at root causes. We need to start thinking about why we have so many people who are poor, and why we have so many broken families, so much addiction, so much division, so much societal misery.



https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html#Kap38

The endless partisan arguments are like bright shiny objects that have turned what should be rational policy discussions into WWF spectacles. Like I keep saying, nothing will change of itself - and this is regardless of who our elected "mommies" and "daddies" are.

The change will happen with each of us, acting both independently and together - in a spirit of love and compassion for our shared humanity.

 

[budman]

from the sink

Their charter wasn’t approved by Obama

 

[budman]

From General

notmypres

 

[budman]

From the sink.

More proof that the central valley in CA is a shitty place to live, Devin Nunes got re-elected.

 

[budman]

From the sink

Finally!
Proof that Lockdowns Are Working!

[youtube]qQ_XFUYAV_A[/youtube]

 

[DucatiHoney]

From the Sink

Former president trump says he's current president it doesn't make it so..

 

[budman]

Bolded section Edited. From the Sink.

Not at all. I'm an empiricist.

I don't believe in horoscopes, chemtrails, flat Earth, aliens, or any kind of conspiracy.

Well, except for believing that Hillary Clinton is one of the Lizard people.

 

[budman]

From the covid forum

With the recall movement gaining momentum, Guv Gav needs the masses terrified. He must reinforce the temporary mental disability that has left half the state unable to gather facts or reason to their own conclusions, lest they be accused of violating the sacred faith that makes voicing doubt in or asking for proof of "experts" who claim to speak for "science" blasphemy punishable by an eternity in the fiery depths of hell.

Rumor has it that his latest tactic came out of the French Laundry dinner with lobbyists from the California "Medical" Association: Body bags! That's the ticket! And refrigerated storage for dead bodies. OMG, that'll fucking petrify those gullible knobs!

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a public vaccine campaign to reach Californians in 13 different languages Tuesday but warned that the state is still facing an uptick in COVID-19 cases and deaths.

He said the state recently purchased 5,000 additional body bags to be distributed in San Diego, Los Angeles and Inyo counties, and that 60 refrigerated storage units are currently standing by in case they are needed for overflow from hospitals and county morgues.​

Hmmm. Let's see what Gav's Gullibles will have to overlook, not that they'd risk damnation by actually looking...

Whoa. Something changed. What's going on here?

Case-fatality rate down to 1%??? Are we protecting the elderly better?

Nope. Little change in positive test result age distribution, and fatality rate is down across the board.


What would explain the apparent dramatic change in virus lethality? False positives perhaps. What would explain that? PCR cycle threshold selected not for accuracy but to scare the masses. The New York Times was on this four months ago, but there's barely been a word from the media since. Must not serve the needs of the ruling class.


Data from California Department of Public Health, downloaded 12/15/2020.
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[tzrider]

This one is a little tough. There is valuable data here but also blatant political commentary.

 

[DucatiHoney]

From the Sink

Gavin is looking for "Stay at Home" violators.

 

[budman]

From General

So, the FBI has the time and manpower to send 30 agents with guns drawn to a motorcycle manufacturer, but can't be bothered to investigate the election results or the fraudulent persecution by Obama and Clinton on Trump?

We live in a scary and crazy world, folks.

 

[DucatiHoney]

From 'Sink

I heard it's minus 45 in Washington.

This was the entire thread--moved to Politics

 

[DucatiHoney]

Posted in DirtyBARFing.

Edited portion out about the governor in the post in the thread

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So following this rational people should not ride MTB/EMTB either and the parks should be shootdown for MTB usage.

I guess we can continue speculating somewhat like a person having a Stockholm syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

But the fact is they correlated to ICU beds and not the ER.

They also told us the ER metric is the trigger for SIH order, but now the governor say, no no let's do a U turn.
The fact is this crisis has been ill managed in CA to the level we got (at one point) the first from the bottom in inoculations per cap - and that's in a state where most people leave in city centers...

Well done governor.

 

[budman]

From the sink - Partial post edit.

Chesa Boudin is done. His poor handling of the attacks on Asians is going to implode his career. In San Francisco, you cannot fuck with the Chinese, they run this town. They are not very activist, but they hold real long grudges and flex like a titan. Connie Chan and Gordon Mar are going to run him out of town on a rail, despite what I am sure will be an acre of protests from Matt Haney. Connie is in deep with the Vice President of the United States and will pull party strings if she has to, bank on that.

 

[budman]

From the sink.

I'm thinking that pretty soon, liberal-socialists will realize that you cant vote for equality....
There are certain sectors of society that dont have that important drive that will boost you out of drug addiction & alcoholism,....
..Those that encourage a dirt bag to want to cut his hair & beard & get a job. You've seen them, they ride a stolen bike & talk to themselves & their main mission is to get fucked up with drugs & liquor.

Liberalism is NOT the answer to our fucked up brethren...of course, you already knew that....