But I heard that people using their smart phones to post on social media have freaked out about the vaccine being used to track you. Don't let the big gummint take away your freedums by giving you the vaccine! Live vaccine free and die!

One of the biggest water pig crops in California is almonds. It's estimated that each almond consumes about 12 liters of water.

In rural America, you can listen to right wing hate radio on multiple stations, but cannot find a liberal alternative.
In rural America, you walk into your dentist, optometrist, oil changer...even fast food restaurant to see Fox "news" on the TV all day, every day.
The newspapers aren't much better, presuming anyone reads anymore...and with social media and YouTube University available to anyone who figured out how to get the Internet? Well...

In this environment, tell me again how the Democrats are not doing enough to get their message out? The entire system is designed to prevent that, institutionally.

What do Repubicans need to do? Yet another article about what Democrats "need to do."

I've done run out of fecks to give for these people...

Yeah, I get that. It looks like there is a full-court press on with the GQP and bobbleheads at New Pravda encouraging people to get vaccinated. Clearly, causing the deaths of thousands of loyalists was a bad move (for them, not Putin), so now we get to see them rewrite history. Like I said, in about 6 months, this is all going to be about Biden's failure to get the nutzoids to not be nutzoids. I want off the Stoopid Train...half the passengers are lunatics.

In about 6 months, all the wingnuts will be claiming they were never vaccine hesitant, and that the Democrats lied to them, filling the airwaves with misinformation about the Trump vaccine. They will then complain about Biden not making the vaccines available, and going into the 2022 election cycle, will stand proudly behind the politicians and media talking heads who killed off their families.

Why do you diminish Asians?

@ebayrepair - not diminishing any groups here...just pointing out that SENTINEL is building up his/her/their straw man with this specific group (repeatedly, I might add) to then tear down whatever argument he/she/they are fabricating about everyone else's comments re: CRT at large.

I agree with you, racism is an ugly thing, and there's really no place for it in a civilized society. I'm not advocating one group over another, or diminishing anyone in particular, except the logical fallacy afficionados.

Make some blanket statement about something cherry-picked (preferably whatabout?) from the larger context of a complicated topic.
Put the onus on everyone else to acknowledge said blanket statement as fact before continuing the conversation in any meaningful way.
When blanket statement is not engaged, accuse everyone else of not arguing in good faith.
Tear down the straw man and declare victory.
If anyone calls you on it, declare them a troll or bot, and again declare victory.

I don't want to use labels, or assume anything, but my experience is that this type of recipe comes from the Libertarian Cookbook.

Is anti-Asian racism the only form of racism that matters? Seems kind of shallow. Plenty of straw, keep building.

Why do a FL and GA congresscritter need a CA venue?

You've never been to Newport or Seal Beach, have you? Plenty of frothy wingnuts here behind the Orange Curtain...and heavily packed up the Central Valley, too. They lost Orange County to the Democrats, so this is just some Fox & friendly campaigning where some of that Repubican money won't go to waste...nobody in Nunez or McCarthy's district has any spare change.

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Or maybe Skokie, Illinois...

Ooh, Sentinel is back with his "Clear cut examples" by making a blanket statement without evidence and putting ht onus on everyone else to prove what he said is not true. Yay!

Be careful, he'll be calling you a bot next, LOL.

-Chuffy the bot, Seniority 7

Thanks again for illustrating my point so poignantly. Another example of, "I haven't really made much of a point, and can't refute what you've said because that would mean I have to back up my arguments with rational thought, so I'll just say you're reinforcing my argument, even though I haven't really made one."

CRT is a little-known theory. The scandal over it being widely taught in our classrooms is made up. There you go again with your straw man arguments.

I've also said before that it wasn't just made up out of vacuum, that there are very and numerous examples for them to latch onto. You probably said it, but you also probably didn't provide any evidence whatsoever to back up the "very and numerous" examples.

Why would anyone watch a 20 minute video about something that is, even according to you, just rebranding capitalization on the so-called SJW and "woke" movements? It is obvious, there's really no need to waste any time finding someone who rebrands it better than someone else. The only value of watching not-liberals get deeply into their conspiracy-laden ideas is to be prepared for the inevitable onslaught of dittoheads repeating it incessantly until they've got nobody else to listen to them. At that point, hey, declare victory because nobody wants to refute 20 minutes of bul...nonsense...with a Libertarian.

And with this you sound indistinguishable from the partisan hacks who identify as "Conservative" and say the exact same thing with broad brush statements about "liberals".

Ah, yes, the old "I know you are but what am I?" argument. Bravo.

Meh, I notice you glossed completely over my description of your strawman argument. It's fine, I gave up the red meat earlier because that's the kind of stuff that gets the not-liberals going.

I am more than happy to argue substantive matters, although it seems to me that you, SENTINEL, are more interested in whining about civility and "dishonest and vicious tactics." Please, don't break that pearl strand, loosen your grip, you poor victim.

When you convince me that Tucker Carlson is a left wing lunatic, and the people who watch Tucker Carlson are all liberals with an axe to grind, you can come back to me about the "surveillance society," you can't even focus on this specific argument, you have to expand it to the world of surveillance like they're remotely the same thing. Your logical fallacy is showing.

My point, though, is that CRT has been around, in a more mature form, since at least the 70's, and was a thing in the 90's for a hot moment. It is taught in a few law schools, but let's just scour the Drudge Retort, let's say anything before 2020, and find a single comment or article that mentions CRT anywhere. Come back to me when you can show me anyone had even heard of it before the right wing noise machine manufactured it and got the rubes all frothy about it...then we'll talk. Until then, straw man, and not even a good one.

I'm with SCOTTE - that 59% number seems high. Surviving? Definitely. Getting better? Sure. Thriving? WTAF? Unemployment and underemployment are both out of control. I know people who haven't recovered from the LAST recession when Obama wound up appeasing Repubicans and failed to address the housing crisis...I am definitely NOT in that 59% and don't know many who are. Sure, folks are getting by, and some are doing well, but like SCOTTE, I find that 59% number to be worthy of skepticism...

CRT is a made up scandal. It will disappear from the airwaves as soon as Rupert Murdoch decides to change the subject. We'll rehash it in future posts when the YouTube University graduate students decide it's a useful distraction from talking about the original post, usually as a whataboutism.

CRT is a widespread, delusional right wing strawman. Post a 20 minute Gish gallop from some unknown wingnut, then demand that the reality-based community accept the video as fact, and argue against their skepticism from the point of view that their unwillingness to engage your strawman argument is proof that they don't have a leg to stand on.

Pretty much SOP. In the meantime, CRT is not being taught in schools...but maybe it should. American history has some ugly moments, and the snowflakes who want to whitewash it aren't interested in facing reality. I used to say, "We'll welcome you back to reality when you decide to rejoin the rest of the sane world," but I don't do that any more. Pretty much all of the right wing fascists have jumped into their fantasy world with full sincerity. They are unreachable.

I had to split the other day, looks like I triggered Boaz.

Conservatives, not liberals, want to inspect the private parts (is that acceptable, censors?) of children before they can play sports.
Conservatives, not liberals, want to put cameras into classrooms to watch the kids.
Conservatives, not liberals, are about indoctrination...it's all you talk about, and if we've learned anything about the psychology of conservatives, it's that conservatives project all. the. time. So much so, that anything a conservative is upset about is usually something they are doing that they don't want done to them.

Anyone who still pays any attention whatsoever to that evil piece of filth is just either stupid or evil, or more likely, both.

He and Donnie Grab 'em are going on tour later this year. Maybe they'll drink m-f-in iced tea together and loofah each others' backs...

Find me the leftist media pushing CRT last year. It is the most important issue of our times in right wing hate propaganda, you'll hear all of the wingnut hosts frantically discussing how our children are learning to hate white people through indoctrination, lol.

Nobody even heard of CRT a year ago, completely hysterical, completely fabricated, fake news.

The Repubican Party wants to inspect your childrens' -------- and put cameras in classrooms to watch kids all day. Bunch of creepers.

It's all fixed now! Give rich people tax cuts and elect another reality tv star!

Headline seems either redundant or completely obvious. Of course he does. They don't care if you call them out on it, either. No consequences for racism in that Party.

I blame Wally George.

Yeah, and all the surf Nazis, skinheads and Orange Curtain Repubicans that Nixon and Reagan spawned. It's generational at this point. All those white boys don't have a problem thugging it up in their white boy neighborhoods. Get them in Compton and they change their tune right quick. Beating up old ladies is for big men like that...

81 million Americans voted the last guy out. I'm getting pretty tired of these second-placers demanding control of everything when they aren't in control of anything.

Shut them down, send the traitors to prison, end this nonsense.

I'll never forget the time an old friend of mine said she'd rather be fascist than socialist. Told me all I needed to know about the not-liberals of this world. The cornerstone of their philosophy is active selfishness.