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« Reply #575 on: Sep 19th, 2015, 12:50am » |
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on Sep 18th, 2015, 5:12pm, StegRock wrote:Media sensationalism, including Fox News, and inarticulate, cowardly Republicans continue to fall prey to the Democrat's politics of divide and conquer... The truth on the following matter is at neither of the extremes with which it is typically expressed, the prevailing extreme being that of the mainstream media and the Democrat party. For the record... Obama is NOT a Muslim. HOWEVER, he is a Muslim apologist or sympathizer the likes of which we have never had in the White House, and it has had a negative impact on American foreign policy and stability in the world, period! |
| Do you mind explaining how the Demoncrat's had anything to do with that friggin moron or Trumps complete and total inept response? You seem to state as fact that the deomcrats had something to do with it. If you want to see class, see John McCain's response to a similar question in 2008.
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« Reply #576 on: Sep 19th, 2015, 6:23am » |
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on Sep 19th, 2015, 12:50am, DirkDiggler wrote:Do you mind explaining how the Demoncrat's had anything to do with that friggin moron or Trumps complete and total inept response? You seem to state as fact that the deomcrats had something to do with it. |
| Do not read into things that are evidently beyond your ken, DD! I even criticize Fox News and Republicans, for Gawd's sake! Even that is not enough for you, though! Criticism of my own side is not enough. But, of course, you demand wholesale rejection and complete acquiescence! Read on... as it all makes sense... ... But, anyway, THIS is the (middle-ground) truth of the matter... on Sep 18th, 2015, 5:12pm, StegRock wrote:Obama is NOT a Muslim. HOWEVER, he is a Muslim apologist or sympathizer the likes of which we have never had in the White House, and it has had a negative impact on American foreign policy and stability in the world, period! |
| NOT this... on Sep 19th, 2015, 12:50am, DirkDiggler wrote:If you want to see class, see John McCain's response to a similar question in 2008. |
| And, incidentally, this is how McCain was thanked by the Great One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwozMG4wHgs. Arrogant! Classless! Moreover, could you give me just one example void of political expedience and motivation of a Democrat saying something as classy, to use your verbiage, toward a Republican as McCain did toward Obama? ... But, I digress. Read on... as "you" make sense... Of course, an Obama borg and leftist, liberal lemming like you would think otherwise about all this. Democrats, and especially so-called Socialist Democrats, demand group-think! Even George Orwell warned us of this. That is why they, like you here, love to point out when lapdog Republicans say what they want them to say. It is like, "Even a Republican defends Obama. See how right we are!" It is a sort of "a fortiori" fulfillment of their (logically predictable) need for agreement, consensus, unanimity (as that is what socialism, which the Democrat party has sold out to, bends toward and truth is reduced to for relativist-minded leftists who do not think there is objective truth). Socrates and Plato warned us: when "man is the measure of all things," "might makes right." Group-think is also why they, as you have exhibited throughout this thread, cannot cross the proverbial aisle and have a meeting of the minds with the other side. They,... eh-hem,... you do not want to. It is always liberal lemming shouts out the Democrat politically correct platitude, conservative gives point-by-point logical response, liberal lemming ignores argument and shouts same crap packaged slightly differently while smugly asking how can you not agree, and repeat. They demand ideological dominance. Indeed, ALL the landmark legislation of this administration, such as the ACA and the Iran nuclear agreement, has been done without any Republican support or through executive orders broad in scope or, improperly, in the courts, like gay marriage. They never want to agree with the Republicans. They only want Republicans to agree with them, and far too many oblige and enable this tyranny. Indeed, absence of Republican support ensures purity to the Democrat and, moreover, so-called Democratic Socialist mind. The only bipartisanship there has been during this administration is, OF COURSE, dissent because that is the logic of the situation. Meanwhile, the American ideal via freedom of speech is that we can agree to disagree as long as we hear each other out while the Democrat party ideal is freedom from speech and an avoidance of hearing each other out whilst screaming over people and shouting chants. On a different, but related note, anyone who thinks (as DD probably does and the Great One surely does) that this kid in Texas was genius enough to build a clock on his own from scratch but not smart enough to see that it looked very suspicious and would evoke legitimate concern and thus to be able to clearly demonstrate that it was not a bomb, especially when he did not do this for a class assignment but just for "fun" and, moreover, claims that he has experienced anti-Muslim bigotry, is a TOTAL MORON.. or pushing the leftist narrative.
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Re: G.T.K.Y.G. - Topic: Politics
« Reply #577 on: Sep 23rd, 2015, 12:22am » |
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Look, the controversy over Ben Carson's answer to the question about the possibility of a Muslim president is silly. What is NOT, however, is a country that feels it has to prove its goodness by entertaining a question about a member of a group that, broadly speaking, committed one of the most horrendous attacks against said country less than a decade and a half ago occupying the highest office of its land. It is as if the very posing of the question somehow demonstrates moral righteousness, or so the liberal media would have us believe. How pathetic! Would any Muslim country consider electing a Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu or atheist president? Heck, in America the likes of Pat Buchanan and Mike Huckabee are too Christian to be elected to the presidency!!! And, we are supposed to feel immoral about expressing hesitance about a Muslim!!! We are taking self-loathing to new heights!
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Re: G.T.K.Y.G. - Topic: Politics
« Reply #578 on: Sep 25th, 2015, 7:07am » |
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on Sep 19th, 2015, 6:23am, StegRock wrote:Of course, an Obama borg and leftist, liberal lemming like you would think otherwise about all this. Democrats, and especially so-called Socialist Democrats, demand group-think! Even George Orwell warned us of this. That is why they, like you here, love to point out when lapdog Republicans say what they want them to say. It is like, "Even a Republican defends Obama. See how right we are!" It is a sort of "a fortiori" fulfillment of their (logically predictable) need for agreement, consensus, unanimity (as that is what socialism, which the Democrat party has sold out to, bends toward and truth is reduced to for relativist-minded leftists who do not think there is objective truth). Socrates and Plato warned us: when "man is the measure of all things," "might makes right." Group-think is also why they, as you have exhibited throughout this thread, cannot cross the proverbial aisle and have a meeting of the minds with the other side. They,... eh-hem,... you do not want to. It is always liberal lemming shouts out the Democrat politically correct platitude, conservative gives point-by-point logical response, liberal lemming ignores argument and shouts same crap packaged slightly differently while smugly asking how can you not agree, and repeat. They demand ideological dominance. Indeed, ALL the landmark legislation of this administration, such as the ACA and the Iran nuclear agreement, has been done without any Republican support or through executive orders broad in scope or, improperly, in the courts, like gay marriage. They never want to agree with the Republicans. They only want Republicans to agree with them, and far too many oblige and enable this tyranny. Indeed, absence of Republican support ensures purity to the Democrat and, moreover, so-called Democratic Socialist mind. The only bipartisanship there has been during this administration is, OF COURSE, dissent because that is the logic of the situation. Meanwhile, the American ideal via freedom of speech is that we can agree to disagree as long as we hear each other out while the Democrat party ideal is freedom from speech and an avoidance of hearing each other out whilst screaming over people and shouting chants. |
| Newest tool for the libbo dems: Pope Francis! "See, even the POPE agrees with us. He is a progressive just like us." Thing is, they are laying claim to those points of agreement (on immigration, income inequality, and the death penalty), of course, divorced from the moral reasoning that underlies the positions he takes (on those matters). Mind you, they have to do that for, if they do acknowledge the underlying moral reasoning, they would have to deal with positions on matters such as abortion, marriage and gender that progressives very much so do not welcome. The problem, though, moral discourse disconnected from moral reasoning is mere indoctrination and demagoguery. Worse yet, Pope Francis exacerbated the matter by only speaking directly to those issues on which he agrees with the lefties. Whether that was calculated or unwitting, I do not know. But, it definitely made what he said in his address to Congress vulnerable to partisan politicization.
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Re: G.T.K.Y.G. - Topic: Politics
« Reply #579 on: Sep 26th, 2015, 9:04pm » |
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I cannot take it anymore... We got the Festival of Families Concert with Pope Francis in attendance on FOX News (and CNN)... Classy, uplifting, thoughtful, apolitical! Then, we got the Global Citizen Festival Concert to End Extreme World Hunger on MSNBC... Victimization central, trotting out victims of all kinds regardless of relevance to the topic at hand! No critical thinking, unserious, yet political claptrap abounds! Meanwhile, the U.S. and China, in a supposedly great display of "benevolence", agree to give $6.1 BILLION for the reduction of carbon emissions to DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. Are you kidding me? This is money that keeps those countries backwards and poor and the coffers of their scumbag leaders full. If you want to end world hunger, STOP DOING THAT!!! THINK! Wake the hell up, ya damn lemmings!
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« Reply #580 on: Oct 14th, 2016, 11:50pm » |
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Earth to Trump... Here is what you need to say right now... "I preface that Hillary is not her husband. But, it must be understood that nothing I have done is as bad or, at least, any worse than Bill Clinton. Again, Hillary is not Bill, I understand. He was the president, and many think he was a great president. I would be a great president."
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« Reply #583 on: Jan 20th, 2017, 2:54pm » |
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What a day! Indeed, I am reluctant to post this on the "Politics" thread as today, Inauguration Day, is supposed to transcend politics. Even though some want to betray and even upend the process, today is a celebration of the distinctively American peaceful transition of power, which is ever more precious when the transition is deeply philosophical.
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on Jan 20th, 2017, 2:54pm, Stegfucius wrote:What a day! Indeed, I am reluctant to post this on the "Politics" thread as today, Inauguration Day, is supposed to transcend politics. Even though some want to betray and even upend the process, today is a celebration of the distinctively American peaceful transition of power, which is ever more precious when the transition is deeply philosophical. |
| It really is something when a country can peacefully transition power. Democracy at work.
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« Reply #587 on: Oct 28th, 2017, 5:56am » |
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It has been said (by the likes of Stephen A. Smith) that President Trump has won/is winning the day over the players kneeling during the National Anthem and presentation of colors, but that he has done so by "distorting" their message. That latter part is a falsehood! He did not. Kaepernick and those who have followed his "lead" have. Without getting into the deeper, more nuanced philosophical issues of the day of relativism, subjectivism and emotionalism run amok and a population's overwhelming loss of objectivity and as a result reasonableness, let's just say that what matters is not what the message is (which is whatever one has determined it to be) but how it is delivered (which requires one to make considerations beyond one's own determinations). While I agree that how these players have decided to conduct their protest is disrespectful to service members and first responders, with ALL DUE respect, that in and of itself is not my greatest concern. What I am concerned about is something much more destructive to the core fabric of the country. That is to say, my ultimate concern is that what they are doing is disrespectful and deleterious to the foundations of the country. You would not want to ostentatiously protest, say, the child-molestation scandal in the Catholic Church during the recital of the Lord's Prayer (or even the Nicene Creed) unless you were wanting to announce your renunciation of Christianity (or departure from the Church). Such would not be tolerated as those prayers speak to the foundations of Christianity (and the Catholic Church). Analogously, disrespecting the National Anthem and the American flag is in the same anti-American, deconstructionist spirit that seeks the diminution of the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as is manifest in the desecration of the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, the Washington Monument and the WWII Memorial. This is an undeniably dangerous trend! And, it is not nearly sufficiently addressed. Mind you, the leftists and socialists who foment this anti-Americanism are no fans of the NFL, either. The NFL too is an iconic American staple that promotes competition and masculinity. These players are political stooges. But, moreover, the fame of the players is being used to further spread this cancer, especially to the young people who look up to them. The far left is winning in a twofold manner: they are getting their political agenda advanced, AND it is hurting the NFL! Now, that all does not mean that their protest has absolutely no merit. But, if we are really going to have, not just the, but an intellectually honest "conversation" about "race", it is going to have to include statistics that are fairly overwhelmingly unsupportive of the claim of rampant police brutality against blacks, the failures of social-welfare programs, inner-city policies, and "Great Society" initiatives (and the fact that the architect of the "Great Society", LBJ, had THIS to say about it all), the life-saving results of stop-and-frisk policing, as well as the disintegration of the African-American family. Also, since education and work experience and training are so fundamentally important to the uplifting of a person and a community, solutions such as school vouchers ("free education equals public education" is a lie) and welfare work and apprenticeship requirements (of the kind which the prior administration removed) need to be taken seriously and not just dismissed by demagoguery and overgeneralized rhetoric about racism and white supremacy. Otherwise, the "conversation" will remain unproductive political posturing that moreover causes the country to crack at the seams insofar as academia, the mainstream media and the entertainment industry are in the tank for the democrats. (To wit, even what Trump said was misreported and overblown. He did not directly call the players "sons of bitches" as has been roundly reported. He just quipped as if he was quoting an NFL owner saying, upon seeing a player kneeling during the Anthem, "Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he's fired." That is the exact quote. It takes pretty thin skin to believe he was referring to oneself specifically and a political agenda to take it as applying in some particularly literal way to each and every one of the players. He is saying some generic slang that one would be inclined to say about an employee one wants fired. But, I digress... He is oftentimes crass. C'est la vie.) Needless to say, this is NOT about any infringement on players' freedom of speech and expression, which is an intellectually vapid defense. Bottom line for me and vis-à-vis this website, the players protesting during the Anthem and presentation of colors are severely compromising my enjoyment of the hobby of fantasy football I so love. Ugh... I am wanting to simply close this post out with an innocuous, commonplace phrase regarding the heavy feeling I have about this season, but -- censorship is in the midst -- I am refraining from doing so for fear of some thin-skinned, indoctrinated drone absurdly reading racism into it and then my being swarmed by drones, and in the meantime having my carefully considered points get lost in the scuffle.
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« Reply #589 on: Nov 11th, 2017, 6:32pm » |
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In case anybody did not get this, ... on Nov 2nd, 2017, 3:06am, Stegfucius wrote:"I will transmit this information to Vladimir." |
| ... Google it! on Oct 28th, 2017, 5:56am, Stegfucius wrote:It has been said (by the likes of Stephen A. Smith) that President Trump has won/is winning the day over the players kneeling during the National Anthem and presentation of colors, but that he has done so by "distorting" their message. That latter part is a falsehood! He did not. Kaepernick and those who have followed his "lead" have. Without getting into the deeper, more nuanced philosophical issues of the day of relativism, subjectivism and emotionalism run amok and a population's overwhelming loss of objectivity and as a result reasonableness, let's just say that what matters is not what the message is (which is whatever one has determined it to be) but how it is delivered (which requires one to make considerations beyond one's own determinations). While I agree that how these players have decided to conduct their protest is disrespectful to service members and first responders, with ALL DUE respect, that in and of itself is not my greatest concern. What I am concerned about is something much more destructive to the core fabric of the country. That is to say, my ultimate concern is that what they are doing is disrespectful and deleterious to the foundations of the country. You would not want to ostentatiously protest, say, the child-molestation scandal in the Catholic Church during the recital of the Lord's Prayer (or even the Nicene Creed) unless you were wanting to announce your renunciation of Christianity (or departure from the Church). Such would not be tolerated as those prayers speak to the foundations of Christianity (and the Catholic Church). Analogously, disrespecting the National Anthem and the American flag is in the same anti-American, deconstructionist spirit that seeks the diminution of the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as is manifest in the desecration of the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, the Washington Monument and the WWII Memorial. This is an undeniably dangerous trend! And, it is not nearly sufficiently addressed. Mind you, the leftists and socialists who foment this anti-Americanism are no fans of the NFL, either. The NFL too is an iconic American staple that promotes competition and masculinity. These players are political stooges. But, moreover, the fame of the players is being used to further spread this cancer, especially to the young people who look up to them. The far left is winning in a twofold manner: they are getting their political agenda advanced, AND it is hurting the NFL! Now, that all does not mean that their protest has absolutely no merit. But, if we are really going to have, not just the, but an intellectually honest "conversation" about "race", it is going to have to include statistics that are fairly overwhelmingly unsupportive of the claim of rampant police brutality against blacks, the failures of social-welfare programs, inner-city policies, and "Great Society" initiatives (and the fact that the architect of the "Great Society", LBJ, had THIS to say about it all), the life-saving results of stop-and-frisk policing, as well as the disintegration of the African-American family. Also, since education and work experience and training are so fundamentally important to the uplifting of a person and a community, solutions such as school vouchers ("free education equals public education" is a lie) and welfare work and apprenticeship requirements (of the kind which the prior administration removed) need to be taken seriously and not just dismissed by demagoguery and overgeneralized rhetoric about racism and white supremacy. Otherwise, the "conversation" will remain unproductive political posturing that moreover causes the country to crack at the seams insofar as academia, the mainstream media and the entertainment industry are in the tank for the democrats. (To wit, even what Trump said was misreported and overblown. He did not directly call the players "sons of bitches" as has been roundly reported. He just quipped as if he was quoting an NFL owner saying, upon seeing a player kneeling during the Anthem, "Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he's fired." That is the exact quote. It takes pretty thin skin to believe he was referring to oneself specifically and a political agenda to take it as applying in some particularly literal way to each and every one of the players. He is saying some generic slang that one would be inclined to say about an employee one wants fired. But, I digress... He is oftentimes crass. C'est la vie.) Needless to say, this is NOT about any infringement on players' freedom of speech and expression, which is an intellectually vapid defense. Bottom line for me and vis-à-vis this website, the players protesting during the Anthem and presentation of colors are severely compromising my enjoyment of the hobby of fantasy football I so love. Ugh... I am wanting to simply close this post out with an innocuous, commonplace phrase regarding the heavy feeling I have about this season, but -- censorship is in the midst -- I am refraining from doing so for fear of some thin-skinned, indoctrinated drone absurdly reading racism into it and then my being swarmed by drones, and in the meantime having my carefully considered points get lost in the scuffle. |
| It is now official... The National Anthem is being attacked as racist! Way to go, Colin! Raping the 49ers was not enough. You had to rape the nation! While the country's foundations are under assault, statues of a disgraced and ultimately forgettable former Mayor of Washington D.C. Marion Barry are being erected. His misdeeds are explained away as a function of the times in which he lived, but such a pass is not given to our Founding Fathers! But, I digress... I have a working thesis about how the NFL is getting by during these unfortunate times... The NFL is being buoyed by fantasy football! This may just be anecdotal, but in all honesty the ONLY thing keeping me partially tuned in to the NFL is my fantasy football league, the GBRFL. The NFL is the only professional sports league that has consistently held my attention into my adulthood, and but for the existence of the GBRFL, I would be done with the NFL! The anti-Americanism and libel against the American people that the NFL is promoting is despicable. The politically motivated conflation of imperfect racial attitudes with overt racism, no less white supremacy, is a grave error of our times and a terrible libel against the overwhelming majority of Americans!
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Liberal, democrat members of Congress meet with a far-left, democrat psychiatrist from the leftist-dominated Ivy League wing of liberal, democrat academia, who has never met Donald Trump mind you, and it is reported on by a leftist, democrat press, none of whom, from any of these groups, has the self-awareness to realize that they constitute the very hyper-partisan echo chamber that they inhabit... http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/04/politics/psychiatrist-congress-meeting-tru mp/index.html http://www.newsweek.com/trump-could-destroy-entire-human-species-says-ya le-psychiatrist-who-warned-772328 This is considered news in the Anti-Trump era! These attacks on Trump's mental fitness make me recall Martin Luther King's wisdom that a healthy person will seem sick in a sick society. And, then, there is this to consider... https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/11/12/prof-diagnoses-martin-luther-k ing-jr/ https://apnews.com/cbcc46c385f04a269c051ef0fb3446fb Do your homework! Be reasonable! Be thoughtful! Be an independent thinker, and do not be misled by fake news!
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I do not do Twitter, so I have to take my commentary here... Has anybody heard the recent talk about Kanye West (probably not if all you consult is the MSM)? Here it is: http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/04/23/kanye-west-tweets-about-candace-ow ens-greg-gutfeld-reacts. Well, I was on a brief odyssey tonight looking up info on some of my fringe players, such as Ty Montgomery. There was not much, but after seeing an interesting tweet of his (he is a hardcore Christian and fairly conservative), I ended up on his Twitter page and saw this retweeted by him... https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/986759302311395328. All I know is that Rush said that on his show that day! Kanye is listening! Hearkening back to my post above from October 28th... "The Great Society" is, alas, being exposed... for what it is!
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This past week a transcendent figure in this arena was lost. I admired him greatly and found myself in a puddle not a few times over the last few weeks as we came to know of his illness and again when he passed this past Thursday. He was a real exemplar of thoughtfulness, intellectual honesty, careful consideration, reasonableness, rationality, calmness and civility in political discourse. R.I.P. and THANK YOU... Charles Krauthammer (1950-2018)
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Must we all be zombies for the tendentious MSM... The press, in theory, is, of course, NOT the enemy of the people. HOWEVER, a corrupt, partisan press is, à la the old Soviet Union's Pravda, ABSOLUTELY the enemy of the people PRECISELY because we trust them to maintain their objectivity! The intentional conflation and equivocation by the MSM regarding "immigration", "the press" and on and on and playing dumb and coy when it comes to the declarations and policies of the Trump administration is downright diabolical.
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on Aug 3rd, 2018, 4:39pm, Stegfucius wrote:Must we all be zombies for the tendentious MSM... The press, in theory, is, of course, NOT the enemy of the people. HOWEVER, a corrupt, partisan press is, à la the old Soviet Union's Pravda, ABSOLUTELY the enemy of the people PRECISELY because we trust them to maintain their objectivity! The intentional conflation and equivocation by the MSM regarding "immigration", "the press" and on and on and playing dumb and coy when it comes to the declarations and policies of the Trump administration is downright diabolical. |
| Cannot believe this low-hanging fruit, that even the most amateurish of amateurs like me can poke serious holes in, passes as highbrow opinion journalism. Of course, the NYT makes sure it is a "conservative" republican stooge, Bret Stephens (the guy with two misspelled first names for a name ), who delivers it: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/opinion/trump-fake-news-enemy.html. So, what? Are we now supposed to start blaming the accusers of child molesters for the threats made against them in jail and when they get murdered by other inmates? How rich!
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Re: G.T.K.Y.G. - Topic: Politics
« Reply #596 on: Jul 10th, 2019, 5:24am » |
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How can we craft responsible, intelligent policies as regards illegal immigrants if we do not know how many there? Why am I not hearing the argument implied by that question taken up by republicans with respect to the citizenship question on the census? As for the democrats, all of their rhetoric is subterfuge, and terribly mean-spirited at that.
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Re: G.T.K.Y.G. - Topic: Politics
« Reply #597 on: Aug 8th, 2019, 6:47pm » |
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Symptoms are being mistaken for the "dis-ease". The toxic environment of the day, which could lead to social upheaval and civil war, has been wrought by the incessant, intellectually dishonest, top-down attempt to intimidatingly censor reasonable positions, labeling them racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-environment, etc., and thereby besmirching not just ideas BUT PEOPLE. Despite the MSM's doing it on a daily basis, such as on CNN and MSNBC all day long, the manipulative strategies of Walter Lippmann, the "Father of Modern Journalism", and Saul Alinsky of coercively ignoring logically sound, intellectually honest arguments and, moreover, ostracizing "reason-able", law-abiding PEOPLE is not sustainable. At the moment, we are being lied to by the media about the despicable perpetrators of this past weekend's tragic events. Even Fox News and moreover Newsmax are not providing fully accurate information. I mention them only because one would think they would have a vested interest in getting it right. They all by and large just refer to the one perp as being right-wing and the other as being left-wing. This is inaccurate! Dayton perp was 100% FAR-left, and for those who think his actions were not directly politically motivated, think again. He thumbsed up the El Paso attack before perpetrating his own. But, do not let me be your source! Do your own homework: https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-betts-twitter-politics-social-medi a/ (article includes lots of further informative links). This is getting little coverage on Fox News and Newsmax and virtually NO coverage in the MSM. El Paso perp's mindset is a mix of equal parts of right, left and racism, which despite heavy social indoctrination to the contrary is a right-AND-left thing. He expresses anti-immigrant views, which are a right-wing thing and were surely the most immediately motivating factor for his actions. He also expresses anti-corporatist, anti-consumerist, and extreme environmentalist views, which are a hallmark of the left, and (not that I watch everything but) except for Jesse Watters very briefly on Fox News's "The Five" and John Cardillo very briefly on Newsmax's "America Talks Live", I have not heard ANYBODY talk about ANY of that. The perp also expresses racist views, which are the mark of a racist. Again, do not believe me! Go see for yourself: https://trendingviews.co/galleries/alleged-manifesto-of-el-paso-shooter- patrick-crusius-8347.html?mode=allImages.
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Re: G.T.K.Y.G. - Topic: Politics
« Reply #598 on: Nov 12th, 2019, 1:04pm » |
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Come on, righties! Feed their disingenuous, ill logic right back to them! After all, ... ... They are conflating Biden-Ukraine collusion with a legitimate investigation into illicit influence peddling in Ukraine. What, do they not care about foreign meddling? I remember how galling it was hearing them say, "Do not conflate Trump-Russia collusion with a legitimate investigation into Russian meddling ..." Ugh,... how they tendentiously fed us that disingenuous lie for two years, and tens of millions of us bought it... and still do! Bottom line, when democrats investigate republicans, it is called "justice" by the MSM. When republicans anybody investigates democrats, it is called "corruption" by the MSM. The ONLY TRUTH about the MSM is their allegiance to the democrat party!
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