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Im aware of the complaint. (FWIW I don’t regard Skokie as a “right wing cause”.) I don’t agree with everything the ACLU does but I’m glad they’re around and that’s why I support them. Can you offer a specific example of a right wing cause you believe the ACLU should have fought for but did not?

I met Jann Wenner’s son who is currently COO on a plane a few months back and I told him to his face these lists were always absurd. He laughed and said they were voted on by hundreds of music critics and that sometimes the choices seemed absurd to him too, but that they were designed to generate interest and discussion. Which I guess we’re doing so It’s working. He was a nice guy. Eric Clapton not in the top ten seems like the biggest miss to me.

There are many conservatives who agree with you that a Biden re-election would be ruinous. There are even more liberals who believe that a Trump victory would be ruinous. In truth neither opinion is valid. America is too great and too powerful a nation to be ruined by one or even a host of Presidents. We will survive. But I believe Trump would be a disaster (not ruinous) and that Biden’s done a fairly good job so I’m for Biden. And despite the recent polling I’m very confident of a Biden victory. To your second point: it’s extremely unlikely at this point that it will be any matchup other than Biiden vs Trump. Let’s say it’s around 95%.

Why do you believe that Derek Chauvin’s defense team failed to convince a single juror of this?

As usual you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Biden will defeat Trump. In the end it will be fairly decisive.

You’re exaggerating. I’m proud to give money to the ACLU,

As a general rule, modern day conservatives reject the argument that there is institutional racism against black people in this country, especially by the police. I believe it’s a denial of reality, and the saddest consequence of this denial is to blame the victim and glorify the villain, which happens again and again. Thats what we’re witnessing here, along with yet again a complete rejection of both the mainstream media and any facts that upset their preheld world view. It’s awful and pathetic, yet also entirely predictable. If there had been no film that demonized George Floyd, I have no doubt that someone like Jon would have done it anyhow, because he refuses to accept the idea that police treat black people far worse than they do any white person: I want to believe that most conservatives are reasonable and go where the facts take them. But this film serves as a good litmus test for that theory: If you accept the narrative of this crap, rather than the near universal reporting of what actually happened (including the evidence presented in a court of law which led to a unanimous conviction for Derek Chauvin) then you’re not thinking reasonably.

Nobody is ignoring it. The Democrats have offered solutions to this many times. Republicans don’t want solutions, they want a problem they can try to blame on Biden.

Right, there’s no confirmation to that story, which is now 19 hours old. As an Angels fan I continue to hold out hope. Stupid I know but until he signs…

Hey where you been foam? I missed your inane, pointless one line uninformed insults. OK I really didn’t but I’m trying to be nice now that you’re back.

And by the way, what you’re proposing here sure sounds a lot like the original Roe vs Wade decision.

Here’s the problem: the reality is that something like 99.9% of all late term abortions are for stories like this one, or hydrocephalus, etc. But several years ago the pro-life folks realized that if they could convince the public that late term abortions were being performed for convenience purposes, it would be a wedge in which they could turn a larger percentage of people against abortion period and make them look like the reasonable folks, versus liberals who could be painted as the extremists, To some degree this worked. But conservatives became wedded to this argument and they’re still making it. And this is the result.

I find your position to be inhumane.

It’s actually a very good read. It explains why so many of these folks are for Trump- they’re not a part of the Biden recovery and they blame him. They blame him for the fentanyl too. I get it, even though I think they’re very wrong.

Trump fan base is out today! https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/politics/louisiana-red-neck-christmas-parade-trump

Now I kind of like him more.

@RaiderHaters Revenge has actually made many fine points in this thread, I must admit.

As it happens I do.

I would guess: 1. The New York civil trial. Already found guilty. Only question is amount of punishment. 2. New York criminal trial (Alvin Bragg). 60% chance of conviction. 3. DC Jan 6 trial: 65% chance of conviction unless Mark Meadows testifies, then 80% chance. 4. Classified docs trial: 95% chance of conviction- Trump has no defense to this one. 5. Atlanta trial: 80% chance of conviction. Extremely unlikely he is acquitted of all of these.

I’m sorry about that. But it’s wrong to blame a whole group of people for the actions of one person, and if you’re truly reasonable you should know that. There are no questions I don’t want asked. We may not agree on the answers (I suspect we won’t). But if you want to, ask away. I’ll do my best to answer you as honestly as I can.

Saved the economy. Stood up to Putin. And he’s not Trump.

You know at times you actually sound like a reasonable dude, even one with a sense of humor. I don’t get the hatred for Jews- have one of us personally harmed you in some way?

How come I don’t get to own a conservative? It’s always other Jews. Maybe I could buy one. How much do they cost?

I’m not a fan of Newsom in particular. But the problem is that Democratic proposals are so infinitely superior to Republican proposals on a majority of issues (not all of them, but a clear majority) that I’m forced to vote Democrat in every Presidential election for the foreseeable future.