Db,
How do you explain the fact no countries other than the usual two are coming to Iran's aid?
#124 | Posted by BillJohnson

You didn't answer. Went with your best shot and blew it.

"-I don't know any radical leftist that are married with children."

And I don't have the energy to determine who on this board was clueness enough to suggest this, but whoever did is horribly wrong.

111.

Bill: Name three US foreign policy failures in your/our lifetime.

I'd say this is one.

US actions in Central America in midcentury and beyond are another. (Both parties)

And of course the ridiculous debacle in Iraq/Afghanistan. (Obama didn't change much of Bush's foreign policy in a practical sense, which the left excoriated him for.)

Your turn.

James Dobson's not running the country.

#29 | Posted by BillJohnson

No, but his ilk and other Christian theocrats and their followers are largely responsible for Trump's election.

The problem is clerics whose authority depends on never backing down, regardless of who pays the price.

#17 | Posted by BillJohnson

James Dobson?

Persian civilization predates European. It'll be around. Like the Chinese. We're short-timers, by a long shot.

The civilization that's being destroyed is Western. The rule of rich white men in everything from economics to government to academia has been eroding since the 1970s. Or maybe before with independence movements in the 20th century.

And of course, American civilization started tanking at any point you want to choose, going way back. Most recent manifestation was a 2015 escalator ride. It ain't gonna stop after a staircase accident or defenstration by same.

[BillJohnson] said Trump would have [his] support no matter what as long as he was effective. [BillJohnson's] words.

#31 | Posted by censored

I wonder how effective Trump's policies and actions have been for Bill in the last few days.

"Do you know why people hate Trump?"
Because he's the current GOP president.
The next one will be hated just as much.
Fact.

#6 | Posted by BillJohnson

I don't know why anyone takes you seriously enough to respond to you.

"Actions . . . have consequences - in this case a population flight. Do look at recent news and see the flight to freedom is ongoing." --Msgt

Cf. the Great Migration.

From Wikipedia (the link messes up):

African American "Great Migrations":
The original Great Migration (African American) from the southern United States to the northern United States (c. 1910"1930), sometimes called the Great Northward Migration
The Second Great Migration (African American) from the southern United States to the northern and western United States (1941"1970)

The geographic cure often comes with unforeseen consequences.

DJT has received large funds from a whole lot worse people, and worse governments.

Bill Gates gives money away to lots of people, many times for good causes, and a lot more than he may have given MTG.

You got nothing to stand on anymore, shrimp. The more you dig in, the worse you look.

"moving out of high-tax states into areas where taxes, and often overall living costs, are lower."

Not to mention their generally lower quality of life and health and education outcomes.

I guess people can enjoy counting their tax savings.

The OP's interest in the internal migration for financial reasons of the US well-to-do is noted. Maybe LFT is trying to make a political point.

And regarding the spider hole, sorta, when the police found Charles Manson he was curled up in a cabinet under a kitchen sink.

I'm having a hard time coming up with what their inventory might have been.

"She went on to say, while she's losing money on every transaction, she hopes to make it up on volume."

If she has a nice derriere, her head's in the right place.

Like the ballroom space, perhaps he sees it as a place from which he can make believe he's running his game in exile.

" Trans people can't get the exact same healthcare that cis people get"
Statement has no basis in reality.

#72 | Posted by BellRinger"

Really?

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
"Disparities in Preventive Health Services Between Transgender and Cisgender Adults by State-Level Policy Environments"
Volume 69, Issue 4107954
October 2025

Which month is heterosexual pride month?

#62 | Posted by BellRinger

Which month is white History Month?

I can never read about toes curling without thinking of the Barry White song "Put Me in Your Mix."

Gets right to the point.

32.

Not that Israel is getting good ink these days, but it was a winner when they sent a missile to get a guy in a wheelchair.

Another possibility for the dotard.

I wonder if he will lose a single White Christian nationalist or evangelical over "Praise Be to Allah."

Allahu a'lam.

All of a sudden the sex-obsessed rightwing is, "Oh, the children."

What percentage of American children and families is affected by this issue?

Want to care about something? Get off the BoazLola kick and do poverty, war, education, environment, and preventive health for all Americans.

"Transgender" or "two-spirit persons" have been around a lot longer than US liberals have. Or the US for that matter. Or Christianity.

Two-spirit persons appear in cultures that white Europeans/Americans have tried to demolish for centuries.

America would be a better place if everyone regardless of party was involved in lifting people up regardless of who they are, rather than demeaning them for what they are.

GIGO.

Lightnin' Hopkins, Live 1964, solo blues, about 8 min.

"Right now I believe everything would be all right if we all get our mind together and we got to think about exactly what's about to happen. . . ."

Franklin Graham can eat a bag of dicks.
--Nixon

Probably has, but all the popes in history haven't eaten as many hot dogs as Pope Leo, the White Sox fan.

A deathbed change of heart can't come soon enough for F. Graham. Either one.

Ty Cobb has been friendly with the truth for a while now. One wonders how he was ever roped in during Trump I.