LDAHL
Senior Member

I learned that the US military is still running down the stock of Purple Hearts they purchased during the Second World War. Apparently they were...

I think the accusations of your opponents as fascist trope has been the resort of lazy minds since Truman used it on Dewey. I think the present...

It takes a pretty expansive definition of “protest” to include firing weapons at law enforcement officers. ...

It was in Texas, which I believe to be less tolerant in general of kerfuffling than SF. But it wasn’t the LA or Portland sort of rock-throwing or...

I don’t know. If I believed as Rob seems to that the US is on the brink of chaos and collapse, I might not be inclined to maintain my faith in the US...

What the f does that mean? Do you think the founding fathers were demi-gods, when slavery was still legal, women could not vote, and Natives were...

I used to like the NPR annual reading of the Declaration of Independence every July 4, but I guess they stopped a couple of years ago because it...

I think Mamdani is a Muslim in the same sense Nancy Pelosi is a Catholic. The pro-Palestinian shouting seems to be in conformity to current...

I’ll keep my eyes open for wheelchairs by the side of the road.

Many arguments about big bills produce such claims. True or false it’s become something of a trope. Not that I think this bill isn’t pretty...

There’s always a degree of arm-twisting on both sides for a bill of this magnitude, but I’m not yet prepared to drink the kool aid regarding Trump as...

It doesn’t look like passage through the House is a foregone conclusion. Some GOP moderates have issues with various parts of the entitlement...

If we lived in a just society the late night comics would be all over this.

After he seizes the means of production and purges the reactionary elements in the Sanitation Department, he’ll need the Meadowlands to re-educate...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/supreme-court-trump-executive-branch-power.html The New York Times instructs us that it’s all the...

During college I worked in a factory. I found that eight hours of repetitive tasks made daydreaming almost essential. It had a sort of time dilation...

I see this morning that Iran is declaring victory, having delivered “a hard slap” to the United States.

I think you’re right that mindless whataboutism is one reason our politics have become so stupid and dishonest. Saying the other side does it too...

I think that there was an element of that. “The rich” are always a popular target. And wanting to “globalize the intifada” and arrest the Israeli...

So now B-2s have made the 37 hour round trip from Knob Koster, MO to Iran to strike at hardened nuclear facilities. The subsequent Iranian strike...

So mostly peaceful then? I saw some of the parade. The robot dogs were pretty cool.

It will be interesting to see what sort of “No Kings Day” protests develop. From what I can tell from the LA rioting, the main beneficiaries so far...