The American Politics Thread

There's a big difference between protesting a government and trying to overthrow one. If someone can't see the difference between the two, it can only be down to that person justifying the act of the latter, as no one can possibly be so stupid.

Edited by SteveG - October 13 2021 at 20:08

ProfPanglos wrote: SteveG wrote: There's a big difference between protesting a government and trying to overthrow one. If someone can't see the difference between the two, it can only be down to that person justifying the act of the latter, as no one can possibly be so stupid. I agree 100% with your first sentence. Again, did any of these people have automatic rifles, rocket launchers, or bombs?  If their intent was to "overthrow the government," how exactly were they going to do that?  Use their MAGA caps to bludgeon anyone who stood in their way?  I guess the guy with the viking helmet could've started impaling people with those horns... I'm not justifying what they did.  What they did was stupid.  But if that was an "overthrow the government" attempt, they really need to 'up their game,' LOL.  Which is why I stand by my position that it wasn't their intent to begin with.

Edited by Atavachron - October 13 2021 at 22:40

Atavachron wrote: Trump just released a statement saying Republicans won't vote in 2022 or '24 if we don't "fix Presidential Election fraud". Hm.

JD wrote: Occasionally I'll come across an article that helps demonstrate some fundamental differences between the US and Canada. How do you think this would have played out more often than not  south of the border? (NOTE: Pay attention to the numbers) https://canoe.com/news/canada/satanic-panic-2021-heavy-metal-loving-ontario-principal-can-stay-despite-parents-petitioning-for-her-removal

It depends on where exactly south of the border you're referring to. She would fit in well in Austin, Texas. Muskogee, Oklahoma? Not as much. 

Edited by SteveG - October 15 2021 at 06:25

Re Boebert: The implication that only 'liberals' favor gun legislation is purposefully manipulative. The idea that all people can be divided up into two neat little camps of thought is lazy thinking and childish. Most local police departments favor gun legislation and these people are hardly what I would call 'liberals'. On the other hand, there are plenty of left wing types that see unfettered gun ownership as essential to prevent an oppressive government.
Anyway, regarding her ignorance of recent events, or past events, no big surprise there.

Edited by Easy Money - October 15 2021 at 07:39

No doubt Boebert is following in the footsteps of her hero, who gave us such pearls of wisdom like raking the floors of the forests, windmills cause cancer, the airports of the Revolutionary War, the moon is part of Mars, that Hurricane Florence was the wettest "from the standpoint of water," needing voter ID to buy cereal, exercise depletes the body's reserves of energy, injecting people with light and disinfectants, "person, woman, man, camera, TV," flushing toilets 10 or 15 times, the number of people at his inauguration, when he met with the president of the U.S. Virgin Islands (which is him), the border wall he was building in Colorado, nuking hurricanes, among others. The dumbest four years of my life, and it appears more years to come thanks to his protégés.

Atavachron wrote: Except the desire to control a woman's reproductive rights.  That they embrace.