A Deeply Fractured US

[Colin Parkinson]

If you spell Russia as C-h-i-n-a, then yes.

China seems to have more success infiltrating the halls of power. mainly as they had more money to throw around and more promises of opportunity for people to become enriched.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Jumped out at me:

“Of particular note, the documents released Wednesday included an affidavit that noted a Russian company is keeping a list of more than 2,800 influencers world wide, about one-fifth of whom are based in the United States, to monitor and potentially groom to spread Russian propaganda.”

Sounds like things probably an us problem too.

In 1970, My dad was invited to a medical conference in Moscow. In 1967 he was a NDP MLA. So we got permission to enter Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, entered the USSR, drove through Kiev, Moscow, Leningrad and out to Finland. I firmly believe they were hoping to turn my dad. He was rather naive about the threat of the USSR, but I suspect they decided he was not worth the effort. I should have paid to acquire a copy of his file when the KGB archives were briefly accesible.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Oh my heavens…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1833666831174758788

 

[dapaterson]

Germany: PS we don't eat cats and dogs.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1833808396618764327

 

[lenaitch]

Oh my heavens…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1833666831174758788

"Because the first presidential debate broadcast on the radio was between Honest Abe Lincoln and his Republican challenger for the presidency, Frederick “Buster”Douglas."

Really? They had radio in 1858?

 

[Brad Sallows]

"Because the first presidential debate broadcast on the radio was between Honest Abe Lincoln and his Republican challenger for the presidency, Frederick “Buster”Douglas."

Really? They had radio in 1858?

"April 1".

 

[Good2Golf]

"Because the first presidential debate broadcast on the radio was between Honest Abe Lincoln and his Republican challenger for the presidency, Frederick “Buster”Douglas."

Really? They had radio in 1858?

Radio and heavier-than-air horseless flying machines…

 

[Blackadder1916]

"Because the first presidential debate broadcast on the radio was between Honest Abe Lincoln and his Republican challenger for the presidency, Frederick “Buster”Douglas."

Really? They had radio in 1858?

The really sad thing about that tweet (or whatever the f they are calling them now) is that it is difficult impossible to determine if "Three Year Letterman" is trying to be sarcastic, ironic or comedic or if he is really that stupid. Such is the state of education and pubic discourse (and not just in the US, but they are a target rich environment) that it is easy to accept that the writer of that drivel thought he was being serious.

I was first going to make a comment based solely on my first glance at the photos of Lincoln and Douglas and the phrase "Lincoln-Douglas debate" - that was the wrong Douglas. Yes, my initial reaction was that stupidity trying to masquerade as factual was encroaching on the forum (it wouldn't be the first time). But @Cloud Cover's comment and emoji gave me pause that the twit can't be serious. I don't follow anybody on social media. I'll sometimes go to those sites to read the additional text or to see where something came from originally. Usually I'm disappointed by the experience; no difference on this occasion. I still don't know what was the purpose of the original tweet; I suspect his sole purpose is to generate views, so, unfortunately I've been suckered into his game. I do, however, still think that the writer is an idiot.

 

[brihard]

The really sad thing about that tweet (or whatever the f they are calling them now) is that it is difficult impossible to determine if "Three Year Letterman" is trying to be sarcastic, ironic or comedic or if he is really that stupid. Such is the state of education and pubic discourse (and not just in the US, but they are a target rich environment) that it is easy to accept that the writer of that drivel thought he was being serious.

I was first going to make a comment based solely on my first glance at the photos of Lincoln and Douglas and the phrase "Lincoln-Douglas debate" - that was the wrong Douglas. Yes, my initial reaction was that stupidity trying to masquerade as factual was encroaching on the forum (it wouldn't be the first time). But @Cloud Cover's comment and emoji gave me pause that the twit can't be serious. I don't follow anybody on social media. I'll sometimes go to those sites to read the additional text or to see where something came from originally. Usually I'm disappointed by the experience; no difference on this occasion. I still don't know what was the purpose of the original tweet; I suspect his sole purpose is to generate views, so, unfortunately I've been suckered into his game. I do, however, still think that the writer is an idiot.

3YL is a very well known parody account on Twitter. He posts all kinds of absurd stuff for comedy and has quite a following. In real life he’s a lawyer - I think somewhere in the Northeast - and he donates his Twitter revenue to various good causes like children’s hospitals.

 

[Cloud Cover]

3YL is a very well known parody account on Twitter. He posts all kinds of absurd stuff for comedy and has quite a following. In real life he’s a lawyer - I think somewhere in the Northeast - and he donates his Twitter revenue to various good causes like children’s hospitals.

Coach is a licensed Notary with specific expertise in US Constitutional Law and its influence in the drafting of the Holy Bible by the founding fathers Thomas Roosevelt and Theodore O’Brady Jefferson.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Coach is a licensed Notary with specific expertise in US Constitutional Law and its influence in the drafting of the Holy Bible by the founding fathers Thomas Roosevelt and Theodore O’Brady Jefferson.

I feel vindicated…

 

[brihard]

I feel vindicated…

He didn’t even need to flex his fully loaded Ford Taurus.

 

[Cloud Cover]

No, but I bet the 24 cd changer unit in the trunk was fully loaded.