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Huh? You can stop with the gaslighting.
Wat?No need to protect election security?
Exactly. Each of those 3 issues is an instance of the liberal Democrats attempting to institute unpopular change into something that had been working just fine. And then they blame Republicans for the hubbub. Incredible.
How are the democrats driving this?
He uses personal anecdotes to justify his nonsense all the time
Isn't your experience with Tim exactly Tim "justifying a political argument with a personal anecdote"?
How? All 3 of these issues were created by liberal policies. The Dems in CT pushed through the transgender sports issue. I know because I was in the middle of it. Dems changed the election rules this past year and liberals created the critical race theory nonsense. You think Conservatives created those? They reacted to them, as they should.
Lets start here.
When you are ready - we can tackle this one too.
Wrong on transgender sports in CT. The state (run by Democrats) issued the ruling to allow Andraya Yearwood to run with the girls. Republicans - and many many Democrats who saw the races - tried to change the policy back to the way it was originally. Dems entirely started and sustained that madness, I can assure you.
Right - she competed in 2017... cis student sued. The case was dismissed by a Federal Judge - as noted above - because, in part, there are no transgendered athletes competing now.
Says you (the left)
I've seen a few posts and comments to this effect, and I am not sure I disagree that much. It seems like the right is able to get the base riled up most when it has a social issue like this for the people to get behind. Works for awhile, but it doesn't seem to last that long - ie gay marriage, deomonizing pot, etc.
If this was 100% it, it wouldn't be attached to other things getting passed like treatments that trans people can get. It's more that this. Also, your statement above could also be accomplished by pushing for records to not count, scholarships to not be effected, or things like that. Instead it's a hard line blocking them from participating.
Right...that's what he said. So not understanding the "full of crap" comment...he's spot on.
Anecdotal arguments, by themselves, aren’t worth much, whether from me or other people. I do offer them from time to time but I try to mix some facts in as well. I’m well aware that anecdotes by themselves don’t prove anything.
I didn't mean to single you out on the jobs part, we are all like the mouse on the spinning wheel.
I’ve now asked this question numerous times in several threads. Not a single answer has been forthcoming.
I'm almost a year in on asking the question...hopefully you aren't holding your breath.
And to be honest....I "respect" that sort of argument SIGNIFICANTLY more than people trying to tell me that this current vaccine rollout situation isn't the closest thing to a socialistic event this country's seen in a good number of years.
Blocking people born male from participating against people that were born female?
That’s nice
I’m not jumping on you personally. There’s already a 20 page thread devoted to this nonsense and IMO, that’s about 19 pages too long. Why is so much of our political discussion devoted to this cultural stuff that affects less than 1% of the population?
You couldn't be more wrong on this issue. My son competed in the same conference as Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, the two trans track runners in CT. I'm pretty certain I've seen every race that Andraya ever ran in, even when she was a he and ran with the boys as a Freshman. Average runner at best. But as a girl she instantly became the best runner in the state and it wasn't close. This entire issue was the result of Progressive ideas run amok. There were no Republican bogeyman here - that's complete nonsense. The Liberals in CT were the ones who made the idiot decision to allow a jacked up male sprinter to run girls track. When I saw her first race I couldn't believe my eyes. Looked like a high school wide receiver running against little girls. Everyone who witnessed it thought it was ridiculous, which it was. I have several Liberal friends - very Liberal in fact - and at first they did the politically correct thing which was to remain silent but in private talk about how crazy it was. My son's first girlfriend took 2nd to Andraya in Conference Championships and was robbed of 3 titles. When all was said and done the coaches and parents estimated that it probably cost her and her parents about $40K in scholarship money. Those two transgenders, nice as they were, ruined girls track in CT for 2 years. They took 1st and 2nd place in just about every event they ran in. Girls lost out on State Championships and trips to New England Regionals and even Nationals - things they worked for for several years. Selena Soule, a Glastonbury High runner that I also know, teamed up with a couple of other girls and launched a lawsuit to get the CT CIAC to change its policy back to the way it used to be. That lawsuit was supported by Bill Barr. Petitions started to appear at all the track meets. I circulated one of those petitions at a meet in Old Saybrook and very single person except one signed it, and a large percentage of them were Liberal Democrats. So no - this issue wasn't ginned up by angry white Republicans. It was a ridiculous policy put into play by out of touch Liberal bureaucrats in CT and the support for it was nonexistent. It's so ridiculous that this has somehow been turn around to blame Republicans.
1. Let's see - the Energy policy would be a good place to start. We'll start seeing the effects of Biden's decisions shortly. We got a preview of it in CT last summer when the state started implemented Progressive energy ideas and in one month my electricity bill went from about $100 a month to $350.
I get opposition to every single one of these. None of them, to know knowledge, involve government take over of supply, implementation and/or distribution. Can you explain why you say these are "socialist" ?
The textbook definition of Socialism was created about 100 years ago and has morphed over the years. Most people equate it to bigger government and span of control. I don’t think even the Nordic countries that call themselves Socialist would fit that antiquated textbook definition. Regardless - I don’t care what you call it I reject bigger government.
When you say "socialist" you mean "big government"?
Federal regulations of business and industry were scaled back during the Trump administration. I’d say that government control was meaningfully reduced in that regard.
Yet you haven’t been able to explain which of Joe Biden’s policies are socialist. I will ask again.
How about thoughts and points, do those matter? I was clear what I object to. You can define that any way you wish.
In some areas, sure. Size of government increased though. Control over other aspects...didn’t diminish.
OK, lets flip it. Lets say Trump is in office and there are 71 Nazis - but none of his policies are Nazi-inspired. How is that playing?
Keep asking. The point being is that you guys are in a hysteria saying that the right has moved to the extremes yet you've completely ignored that you've got 71 socialists in your party and that keeps growing.
And you cant name any of them...meanwhile there have been actual Q people elected into congress in the GOP and their extremists made it to the Oval. And he still leads the party.
Trump supporters committed insurrection. There is no comparison which side is more extremist. Heck, we have people on this very site who call the ex-pres “Father Trump.” That is authoritarian language and thinking.
What can you do about any Nazi inspired or socialist? It not like they just walk in off the streets and take office. If people vote them in then what?
While I completely agree with your thought process here, I am compelled to point out that those here using the "Father Trump" phrase are purely doing it to troll. I don't believe for a moment that there is any other reason.
Actually there is comparison. Your side set the stage with the BLM / Antifa insurrection riots. They literally tried to burn down federal buildings. Your side wholy supported all of that. I mean even more extreme than a socialist is a Marxist which BLM / Antifa is made up of. So not only do you have socialists you have marxists on top of that.
