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What Piffle. The article of impeachment is “obstruction of Congress”, which relates to the impeachment inquiry, not to any investigation regarding 201...
January 23, 2020 at 08:02
Senate could interpret it that way, but they would be stupid to do so, because it would be ruinous to the constitution and any future presidency. It w...
January 22, 2020 at 23:52
The Senate Majority is putting out some pretty sophisticated propaganda here. https://twitter.com/nrsc/status/1219661000556847107?s=21
January 22, 2020 at 06:10
It was never proven because it was never taken to court. That is where matters of executive privilege vs congressional subpoenas are settled. For inst...
January 22, 2020 at 05:04
Without looking at the media and Twitterati analysis, the beginning of the impeachment trial was a bad one for the House managers. They spent the enti...
January 22, 2020 at 03:53
Lol. Fair enough. Yeah it seems too odious to touch. But the prevalence of left-wing academics and their influence on the growth of political correctn...
January 22, 2020 at 00:08
On the one hand we have marxists and academics using the term “cultural Marxism” to describe the critique of culture, and on the other we have it is a...
January 21, 2020 at 23:35
Just curious but why is the “cultural Marxism” theory nonsense? I’ve heard that it is an alt-right conspiracy theory, but upon taking a further look I...
January 21, 2020 at 20:22
Carlin’s claim was certainly counterfactual and thus cannot be proven to be the case, but I think his general point about how the jargon buries any hu...
January 21, 2020 at 16:54
I don’t believe “political correctness” is any intended consequence or agenda. The phenomenon, if we can even call it that, is so amorphous that it’s ...
January 21, 2020 at 16:43
I’m not so sure of that. Political correctness is a tool of the privileged, not of the economically marginalized. According to its biggest critics it ...
January 21, 2020 at 00:49
But censorious PC has brought down nobel laureates, tenured professors, Harvard presidents, comedians, actors and musicians, politicians left and righ...
January 21, 2020 at 00:23
I get it. You've been strung along by democrat lies this entire time. When they said "bribery" or "extortion" you followed along, parroting it willing...
January 20, 2020 at 23:05
That's completely fair. We should worry when the far-right or the far-left adopt legitimate criticism to further their extremist agendas. But I'm afra...
January 20, 2020 at 22:59
There is another component to PC that should be addressed, and that is the use of euphemism and a kind of bureaucratic "broadcaster-speak" to alleviat...
January 20, 2020 at 22:56
The charade is not in accordance with constitutional principles because Trump is well within his constitutional powers to do what they claim he did. N...
January 20, 2020 at 22:41
Actually the defense is saying the impeachment effort is a "brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere wit...
January 20, 2020 at 21:06
I think every president does it every year to specify the exact day. Trump did it last year. Obama did it before him. Bush also.
January 20, 2020 at 20:56
For the same reason you know what words to use and in what order to place them. We could quibble about definitions and may be justified in doing so, b...
January 20, 2020 at 18:26
Your virtue-signalling doesn’t find any currency with me, unfortunately. It might curry favor and advantage in your world, but looks pathetic and self...
January 20, 2020 at 18:01
I think you’re right about this. Political correctness is not limited to any sort of political party or persuasion, manifests in many ways, and all si...
January 20, 2020 at 17:43
Most competent people can figure out what words mean on their own accord.
January 20, 2020 at 17:23
Engels made the argument that in a socialist society the institutions of the state would just whither away and coercion would no longer be necessary f...
January 20, 2020 at 17:17
Being anti-P.C. spans the entire political spectrum, at least in America. Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture Warning To Democrats: Most Americans A...
January 20, 2020 at 17:09
I hope you guys are enjoying the holiday. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-martin-luther-king-jr-federal-holiday-2020/
January 20, 2020 at 16:58
An expert is only an expert in a certain field, but not much else.
January 20, 2020 at 05:41
Propaganda is much broader in scope because it employs images, music, statues and other artifacts, including rhetoric itself. So when the propaganda i...
January 19, 2020 at 18:43
Warren, Sanders and Klobuchar will be tied up in impeachment (though they should recuse), limiting much of their campaigning time, keeping them away f...
January 19, 2020 at 10:19
And the Ukrainian foreign minister. His recent interview pretty much refuted the entire case against Trump. No quid pro quo, no pressure, implicit or ...
January 19, 2020 at 00:04
I have a sinking suspicion the GOP might betray the president. I hope I’m wrong, but you might just get what you desire.
January 18, 2020 at 23:50
From the Ukrainian side there is exculpatory evidence that there was no pressure, that hold ups on the American side are routine, and that nothing amo...
January 18, 2020 at 22:50
I’m glad we can agree it is deserving of scrutiny. Luckily there was no pressure, nor any call for criminal investigations from the president. I think...
January 18, 2020 at 19:19
What about your standard, avoid any action that could potentially be perceived as unethical or illegal? Sounds like it’s not so much a standard anymor...
January 18, 2020 at 17:24
He has made his case and so have members of Congress and the senate. Biden threatened to withhold over a billion dollars if the top prosecutor wasn’t ...
January 18, 2020 at 02:21
This is a pretty awkward interview for the pro-impeachment wing of congress. https://youtu.be/vGW2YGpO_ZI
January 18, 2020 at 00:31
I understand. No, I do not think people are attacking me personally. Wrong. I just think it’s odd that with all the name-calling and hostility towards...
January 17, 2020 at 22:45
History will not be kind to them. They will be demoted to its proverbial dustbin while the source of their ire will be remembered for centuries to com...
January 17, 2020 at 22:12
I can appreciate that. That’s why conflicts of interest warrant scrutiny and is grounds for suspicion. Remember that he only asked Zelensky to look in...
January 17, 2020 at 22:08
The problem with political correctness is its censorial undertakings. These undertakings help the far-right because when censored they can claim “free...
January 17, 2020 at 18:32
“ People in the grip of political correctness are in search of the one who has sown the hatred and rejection that they sense all around. They are expe...
January 17, 2020 at 17:52
A human’s genes come from his parents, not from groups of people.
January 17, 2020 at 17:08
Wagging your finger every time I defend myself, but never when I’m attacked.
January 17, 2020 at 16:34
Thanks for writing that. It was a really good read. It deserves more views.
January 17, 2020 at 08:45
Scruton got his job back after the New Statesman apologized for misrepresenting his views, the same misrepresentations haters are making in this very ...
January 17, 2020 at 08:26
Fair enough. Do you have an objective standard?
January 17, 2020 at 08:14
He didn’t do anything wrong seems a sufficient standard to me. There was an congressional inquiry and the accusations were not supported by the facts....
January 17, 2020 at 05:53
The basis is the evidence. Hunter Biden was put on the board of a corrupt Ukrainian company making vast sums of cash while his father, the Vice Presid...
January 17, 2020 at 04:48
Phase 1 of China deal. Done. USMCA. Done. Pretty amazing.
January 17, 2020 at 02:09
It applies to any public official or employee of the government. Conflict of interest investigations are routinely applied to members of Trump’s admin...
January 17, 2020 at 01:57
Trump speaks the world goes wild. I’m well aware of the word-politics, mostly because that is all some people have.
January 16, 2020 at 22:39