Comments on: Open thread 7/11/24

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:48:53 +0000

Xylourgos, thanks for that! Those trains are kind of charming. I admit my favorite one of all of them, though, was the green-colored InterRegio set that I rode once on one of the Black Forest lines, probably starting from Ulm and I would have been heading for Karlsruhe ultimately.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 22:03:22 +0000

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/court-rejects-professors-lame-attempt-to-blame-cuny-for-allegations-of-antisemitism-against-them/
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Note the nefarious faculty members are sociology professors at Kingsborough Community College.
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In a sensible community college system, available academic courses are limited to subjects commonly taught in high schools and academic degree programs are absent. Degree and certificate programs are in vocational-technical subjects which might be taught at the secondary or tertiary level or in apprenticeship programs, &c.
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NB, this woman Katherine Perea is a specialist in ‘media studies’ who has never published anything. Dominic Wetzel’s publications all make plain he is a political sectary who does not make use of quantitative methods. This is who the sociology department at Kingsborough hires and tenures. Belt and braces reason to shut the department down and discharge its faculty.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:04:41 +0000

Remember that Trump too use to be a Dem.
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He was an enrolled Republican in New York from 1969 to 1985; from 1985 to 2015 he alternated back and forth between non-partisan, Democratic, and Republican enrollment.
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“Wasn’t Reagan a Democrat at one time?”
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By the time he ran for office that was decades in the past, not months.
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He ran for Governor of California in 1966, four years after he enrolled as a Republican. (As a Democrat, he endorsed Richard Nixon in 1960). Supposedly, there were four vectors that influenced his incremental departure from the Democratic Party: (1) encountering the marginal income tax rates in effect during the war and the period succeeding; (2) tangling with Communist Party schemers during his years as President of the Screen Actors Guild; (3) the influence of his father-in-law, Loyal Davis; (4) the effect of his public speaking tours undertaken for General Electric, when he was interacting with a lot of ordinary people all over the country.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:30:47 +0000

Tulsi is a very intelligent and thoughtful lady, outspoken as well. I respect her and have trust in her continued defense of America’s critical values, which the authoritarian Democrats are subverting in their lust for power by all legal AND illegal means possible.

By: Brian E

Brian E — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:21:29 +0000

Tulsi left the Democrat party in 2022, not months ago. From a NBC article Oct., 2022:

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii announced Tuesday that she’s leaving the Democratic Party because it’s “now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.”

In a video statement posted on social media, Gabbard, 41, accused Democrats of dividing the country “by racializing every issue, stoking anti-white racism” and “actively working to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution.”

“The Democrats of today are hostile to people of faith and spirituality,” she continued. “They demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans. The Democrats of today believe in open borders and weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents. Above all else, the Democrats of today are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”

Gabbard said the Democratic Party stands for a government of, by and for the “powerful elite,” and she called on her fellow “independent-minded Democrats” to leave the party, as well.

Lots of reasons she would be a problematic choice for Trump, but so would Haley, though for different reasons.

Trump isn’t a fiscal conservative– but based on recent criticism of fiscal conservative House members, it appears the Republican party isn’t either.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:46:57 +0000

“Wasn’t Reagan a Democrat at one time?”

By the time he ran for office that was decades in the past, not months.

By: SHIREHOME

SHIREHOME — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:24:37 +0000

Remember that Trump too use to be a Dem.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:14:59 +0000

Moon over parador dave someone brought up doublestar

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:09:29 +0000

So, huxley, depending on whether Neo puts up a thread for the press conference, I’ll check here for your comments.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:53:04 +0000

How about none

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240711-more-than-186-000-dead-in-gaza-how-credible-are-the-estimates-published-on-the-lancet