The official "let's impeach Trump" thread
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Me too. That would mean we would get a different republican candidate right? That would be awesome
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So, you're saying Mitch McConnell is not an embarrassment? He's certainly ready for the show, and no legislator is more of a disaster for this country than him. For God's sake we have a guy who is our rep in SLC who claims to be a best-selling author and is also an embarrassment. Has he made any statements about the shootings yet? No, just checked his website.
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By the way, did you hear the latest about Trump: "After the mass killing in Dayton, Trump expressed sympathy 'for the people of Toledo.' He also closed down the Dept of Homeland Security's domestic terrorism unit." At least that's what I heard so I don't have a link. Guess he's in denial.
Did a quick search and found this.
https://politizoom.com/2019/08/05/never-forget-trump-disbanded-dhs-domestic-terrorism-unit-in-april/
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Who would that be?
Find a single republican in Congress who both hasn’t been complacent with trump and who wouldn’t wreck the new deal or affordable care act.
You're just trolling with this, right?
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Didn't say that at all. As a matter of fact, I have previously stated on this very site that I think both McConnell and Paul Ryan are/have been failures in their respective roles.
What I did say was careful what you wish for cause you could end up with a sideshow like the supposed Squad.
Food for thought, stop putting words in other people's mouths just for the sake of your argument.
OK, so I'll assume you have a point of view, something like making out everything to be some kind of racist statement. My first wife was fluent in Visayan and Tagalog..... and English. When we studied Russian together, she was the star. I couldn't get the accent and such. But she still wanted me to write her written assignments because I learned Cyrillic pretty good, and could read it. Some people have ears to hear and are good mimics. I just don't do that well.
I did study Visayan and Tagalog..... got myself dictionaries and such. When they borrowed words, the words they borrowed were Spanish first, then later English. I know of the existence of deep vocabularies and usages that don't turn up in the cheap dictionaries. I know, for example, that the Spanish scholars who were the most diligent in compiling local information and usages, did nevertheless resort to using Greek terms to form Visayan and Tagalog usages and meanings.....but that there were some things they just missed about the local languages.
except for technical terms, or religious terms in some cases...... I don't believe there is any innate differences in the human mind that can be attributed to genetics, in any kind of comparative discussion aimed at seriously maintaining any kind of imagined "superiority". It's culture, maybe. Education, mostly. However, I think it is a human right to imagine any kind of "superiority" we please, even the very worst sort of claims, such as being "progressive". It's hard enough for us to construct laws or customs that can in any sense be termed a "level playing field" from a top-down management perspective.
Perhaps.... one day.... you will understand the uselessness of some your own grand imagined superioriites. We will always do evil, we will always seek simple imagined glories, in every possible aspect. We will always have hate, and there will always be government authorities who will oppress their little people.
The most realistic hope we can have, in all this evil, is love. Unreasoned love. Ungoverned love. Making a personal choice to love. Making a personal choice to love people. I have seen where materialism cannot sustain the kind of love religion can. A materialist is denying the human spirit outright. Believing in.... I could say knowing..... God, is a great gift. Knowing I was loved by God..... some would feel compelled to term it "believing" or "imagining".... from a child made a simpleton of me, a dunce.... a stooge. I thought, of course, if God loved me He would love everybody. And while He does, He is no fool. He knows what we are. And He knows we can only work from what we are, no matter how we imagine things should be. So he lets us. Maybe helps us if we will let Him. But back to the whole idea of British supremacy over the world.... The Brits are the ones who have run the show in terms of top down management, though they have always had a little sense about it. It's the Oxford/Cambridge intellectual set who are still the worst sort of "racists", although they have had the sense to pretend to be what they are not, and they have duped you into being their little foot soldier in St. Louis, managing the herd for them, so to speak.... But to the specifics of linguistic superiorities.....
I don't think we could do better in terms like "Amok" or "Bundok". We are enriched by such words which surpass our own weaker expressions. So we borrow them, smartly.
But then, what do I know, really. A few years, here and there. Nothing like the kind of understanding a real scholar will attain who persists in the subject across a lifetime....
St. Jerome is one example of a "real scholar"....... William Tyndale was nothing like him. St. Jerome just knew that if he wanted to understand the ancient times and language, and do a good translation of the texts, he just had to live there and absorb everything that could be absorbed from the remnants of the Bible people.
But at least Tyndale had the sense, and the respect for Jerome, to keep the sense Jerome had and make it English.