Wut woud it take to stop voting Republican?
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Quote:I was more interested in your policy views.
SignyM: How would I know that? Tbh I don't follow your posts all that closely and I've only scanned your website.
JO: http://www.7532020.com/UBoWT.htm wuz wun uv the 1st pajez on the site, so I assumed youd red it.
Quote:But they were drafting schoolmates just a couple of years ahead of me, and could have drafted my boyfriend. That made it personal. Yanno, my older sis's university application was lost when the provost's office was firebombed. Kids just a few years older than me were shot and killed at Kent State. The ROTC office at university was bombed. The Democratic Convention in Chicago was a bloody nightmare, and all of this was on the nightly news, EVERY night. Yanno, when the media still reported the news. It wasn't some distant event. After our troops withdrew from Vietnam, everybody became all self-involved and got into jogging and "the professions": medicine, dentistry, law ... A friend of mine once observed one of the new-type students jogging around campus and sarcastically commented "Yeah. A healthy body in a healthy body". Like I said, I think it was a dividing line of sorts. I don't think you understand the milieu.
SIGNY: IMHO it makes a difference. I'm a few years older than you-65- and prolly the last cohort to be greatly affected by Vietnam. After that, the war wound down and it wasn't an issue to younger students, but everyone from about the current age of 65-74 had to think pretty hard about it because young men were being drafted ... it wasn't an all-volunteer army like now.
JO: They didnt draft women.
Quote:Yep, that's what made it so unsettling!
SIGNY: When I was quite young, maybe about 8, I had what can only be described as an existential crisis.
JO: Thats a very early aje to be contemplating on that level.
Quote:No, I was a happy child. More of the quiet, contemplative type. I felt loved and safe, which was why this was such a shock.
SIGNY: that the universe was a cold, dark, alien place.
JO: Soundz like wut an old GF uv mine sed!
"Marriaj iz a lie to tell children to fool them that therez order & safety in the world".
Did you hav parent problemz?
Anyway, you wanted to know how I came by my opinions, so that's my intellectual history in a nutshell. I don't know if the movie and books would have the same effect on you, but they left a lasting impression on me.
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I grew up in a school system that let us know it was a coin flip that we might all die in a nuclear explosion when "World War III" ended the world.
And if that didn't kill us, AIDS surely would have.
They also had me believing that a fat man in a red suit lived with elves in the North Pole and wouldn't give me toys on Christmas unless I was a good boy, and when I figured out that was a lie when I was five, I had to keep that lie up and not tell anybody at school that Santa wasn't real.
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FAKE ELECTIONS FOREVER!!!!
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/541545-house-passes-voting-rights-a
nd-elections-reform-bill
Your thread is now moot, JO. We will never have a legitimate election again.
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Mitch McConnell Working With Kentucky Legislature on Senate Exit Strategy
Under current law, the power to appoint McConnell’s replacement falls to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. But new legislation McConnell is pushing in the Kentucky General Assembly would strip the governor of that power and put it into the hands of the state GOP.
McConnell’s scramble to secure his legacy comes as his position in the party he effectively built from the ground up is increasingly shaky. McConnell’s denunciation of former President Donald Trump — even as it was accompanied by a vote of acquittal and a pledge to endorse the former president in 2024 if he is the GOP nominee — has brought on calls for his censure by party leaders across the state. A candidate running in McConnell’s mold would face an uphill climb through a primary in the new Republican Party — unless, that is, the candidate has the benefit of incumbency.
The 79-year-old McConnell has held his Senate seat since 1985 and handily won a seventh term last November.
The new legislation, Kentucky Senate Bill 228 — dubbed by some inside the state Legislature as the Daniel Cameron Election Bill — was filed on February 10, 2021, during the Kentucky General Assembly’s 30-day “short” session. The bill alters current state statute that allows the governor to appoint a replacement in the event of a vacancy to the U.S. Senate. If the bill becomes law, the appointment to fill a vacancy will be selected from a list of three names submitted by the state executive committee of the same political party as the senator who held the vacant seat. According to the bill, the appointee from that list will then serve until a successor has been elected by voters. The legislation goes on to list instructions on when elections take place in the event of a vacancy.
Republicans are concerned a successor appointed by Democrat Beshear would be a Democrat — rather than who McConnell would like to replace him.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, also from Kentucky, is in “good” health. However, things could have turned out bad for Paul in 2017, after the junior senator was attacked for being a complete asshole by his Bowling Green, Kentucky, neighbor Rene Boucher. Paul suffered six broken ribs and ended up having part of his lung removed as a result of the attack. That could have resulted in death.
More at https://theintercept.com/2021/03/04/kentucky-mitch-mcconnell-senator-r
eplace/
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Quote:Oh, I remember the "duck and cover" drills and the short "How to protect yourself from radioactive fallout" public service films, and the Cuban Missile Crisis when people seriously thought about building fallout shelters in their backyard. In fact, I remember going with the family to look at some large cement sewer pipes that some guy was trying to sell as a fallout shelter that you could bury in your backyard and equip/stock. There was no shortage of fear-mongering then, too!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I grew up in a school system that let us know it was a coin flip that we might all die in a nuclear explosion when "World War III" ended the world.
And if that didn't kill us, AIDS surely would have.
They also had me believing that a fat man in a red suit lived with elves in the North Pole and wouldn't give me toys on Christmas unless I was a good boy, and when I figured out that was a lie when I was five, I had to keep that lie up and not tell anybody at school that Santa wasn't real.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
FAKE ELECTIONS FOREVER!!!!
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/541545-house-passes-voting-rights-a
nd-elections-reform-bill
Your thread is now moot, JO. We will never have a legitimate election again.
Coud it be that youv got an intraveinous Fox drip going? Thats GoP SoP - turn the truth upside down.
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Quote:FIFY.
Originally posted by JO753:Quote:Coud it be that youv got an intraveinous Fox drip going? Thats
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
FAKE ELECTIONS FOREVER!!!!
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/541545-house-passes-voting-rights-a
nd-elections-reform-bill
Your thread is now moot, JO. We will never have a legitimate election again.GoPLibtard SoP - turn the truth upside down.
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Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
FAKE ELECTIONS FOREVER!!!!
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/541545-house-passes-voting-rights-a
nd-elections-reform-bill
Your thread is now moot, JO. We will never have a legitimate election again.
Coud it be that youv got an intraveinous Fox drip going? Thats GoP SoP - turn the truth upside down.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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Nope.
I never, ever watch Fox News.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Does that mean that ONLY males of draftable age cared about Vietnam?
Big differens between care and terrified with good reazon.
I just got out uv HS wen the draft ended. I wuznt paying much attention to it,
so wuznt worried. I recall having to rejister wuns at the post offis.
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Are you saying the universe is NOT "a cold, dark, alien place"?
A fanfic quote frum a nonexistent final sene in an episode uv Leave It To Beaver:
The Beav: "Jee, Wally, life really stinks, duznt it?"
Wally: "Ye, Beav, but not all the time." roll credits.
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So, to go back to the original topic
Quote:I don't "vote Republican" so I can't answer that question. I think you mean "what would it take to not for for Trump?" and my answer still is
Wut woud it take to stop voting Republican?
Better Democrat candidates.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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