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And, if they wanted to, they could all have shown up this morning in protest, happily dancing outside the Pentagon dressed as Sesame Street characters, waving Pom-Poms, and singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

Thank you, Jerry, for being there in my stead. That said, our antagonists are laughing at these weak kneed expositions like No Kings and Banana Bands because it broadcasts our unwillingness to truly confront. Like I said, where are our veterans? Let this thought detonate in your brain: if the people we paid to train to protect our democracy are cool with what is happening how is dressing up like Donald Duck going to have an impact? I am super proud of Oregon, we truly are doing our part to underline the absurdity. But you know and I know that won't do the job. We need the only group that has street cred across our society, our military veterans, to step up in a serious and public way and say no.

If things are as bad as we make it out where are our veterans? We have the people in inflatable frogs suits, naked bike riders, and the Banana Marching band out in force but where are the people we trained to protect us? Of course I don't expect the serving military to be other than servile but maybe a million veteran march on DC would get some attention. Or maybe they also don't care or are generally pleased with the current trend.

Because it's become an embarrassment.

He governs in accordance with the wishes of his artist God, a very strange God who somehow wants to cover his works.

It’s embarrassingly mercenary but it seems we are at the stage where placing one’s financial bets against America makes sense. I’m already outside the US most of the year and hang with a very international group so I have that covered.

Yes, well, there must be a reason why an environment where intelligence and rationality is largely populated by liberal thinkers. Take your time.

I doubt it. Seems to me that the long term survival of our species is dependent not on what we each want on a short term basis but rather of a mixing of the races and a recognition that a group of peaceful democracies peacefully coexisting for their mutual betterment is clearly not in our nature.

Not before he's perp walked, indicted, humiliated in court, and then deported to Thatawaynia I hope.

Maybe he should have demanded the Economics Prize.

What?? Does that mean that to support merit we must support DEI?

Interesting, the mod's here are also fossil collectors.

Good for you, you can interpret richravizza. The reality is that zero of what he posts is of any use to anyone smarter than a turtle. Of course he offers a nonstop stream of contradictions for jakee to dissect, but then who doesn't?

But he has made it clear: his opposition to all things DEI dominate his political viewpoint. In that world view dilution, which is the inevitable result, is the road to perdition. What is weird is that Winsor is very accomplished and is clearly a highly intelligent person who should be able to deflect mediocrity when needed. Given that we poor fools and simpletons are a form of continuing entertainment seems to prove the point.

Indeed, and my metric is to not irreversibly harm our nation by inciting a confused citizenry to divide and conquer themselves so one ideology might consolidate dictatorial power as Trump is clearly doing. In fact, he loudly telegraphed his intentions long before the last election. Christian against Muslim, rich against poor, blue against red, cities against farms, science against ignorance and on and on and on. Somehow, according to your worldview, there is less harm in that idea than in E Pluribus Unum. I disagree.