21.

Used to be common decency and respect for the law among a plurality of US citizens and people in government working for a common good or goal.

Didn't need intentional famines to cull the herd.

Most of that decency and respect is out the window.

And not yet has eliminating vast numbers of enemies at one time come out into the open. Start small.

First they came for Nancy Guthrie...

"The wedding payments came from an IBA-affiliated entity in Dubai that the boxing association uses for financial transactions."

Billionaires never need to spend their own money.

Let's see: Who won that cold war again?

I'm also talking about the *possibility* of systemic fraud at the state level, including collusion among state officials or others involved in the election process.
*Personally, I believe there is enough reason for concern* that this *may already be occurring*.
I don't think *the possibility should simply be dismissed* because it doesn't fit the traditional idea of what voter fraud looks like.
#52 | Posted by BillJohnson

Got enough qualifiers in there, Bill, for us to have at least four more reasons you're little more than an awesome troll?

3. Precisely.

For all the news, for example, about China already having bots programmed into our power grids that can bring us down in a second, or whatever fear keeps people under their beds at nights ...

The US is doing all that stuff too. We didn't wear the halo for that long. Certainly in no one's memory here.

We can match China's or Russia's badass in most eras. Unfortunately the current administration can't even punch above its own weight.

Because the Trump admin, except for the man, is light as a feather in every respect that matters, except their misplaced and psychotic ballsiness.

I'm all for a return to neighborhood and family bucket brigades.

We used to call kids with autism symptoms lots of things, sometimes even friend, or maybe just a little weird sometimes.

Same goes for ADHD.

One experiment: Kids were put in a play lab, and researchers from three different nations watched them for ADHD.

Japanese researchers, estimated 3 percent of the kids
UK, 10 percent
US, 20 percent

16. I don't fish. Other than that ...

Sums it up. From 2001. Not news.

I'm also talking about the possibility of systemic fraud at the state level, including collusion among state officials or others involved in the election process.
Personally, I believe there is enough reason for concernthat this may already be occurring.
I don't think the possibility should simply be dismissed because it doesn't fit the traditional idea of what voter fraud looks like.

#52 | Posted by BillJohnson

Imagine a whole society living in this kind of insecurity, and what they have to do to soothe it.

9.

For a long time in my work, I insisted that 9/11 be clarified to be Sept. 11, 2001, because it's gonna happen again someday to the US on an anniversary, and 9/11 won't be so clear.

Ask 1,000 people what January 6 means. (One will say mail-in ballots.)

9/11/2001: Massive US security mistakes (questionable) leading to war and ginning up of anti-Muslim hate.

What did it mean? In retrospect, it's not a good look for anyone but the victims and the people who tried to deal with the wreckage.

Leave it to cornholio to make a pathetic attempt to equate this to 9/11. He thinks we deserved it like his hero Hasan Piker.

#7 | Posted by willowby

911 doesn't = 911?

Score one for the DR brain trust.

Instead it opened its borders to more Islamic people than any country in the history of man.
Keep that aftermath of 9/11 in your mind any time someone tells you it was about Israel and the Jews.
#35

And the US has just welcomed Muslims with open arms, huh, with Christian hospitality?

Much makes more sense with time. Too many places around the world, the US is on every side of the fence, overtly or covertly, one administration to the next. And sometimes jumping back and forth. And I doubt they are alone.

I love America. But read the damn scoreboard.

42. Of course there's tons of footage showing the plane cruising right into the Pentagon, probably from miles away, and you can probably zoom in and peek in the windows to see what passengers were reading.

But to release that footage in 2001 or anytime until apparently up to a few weeks ago would have let the US people know what detailed surveillance they were already living under.

Can't have that.

Suspended? His classroom attendance would have skyrocketed. Talk about a missed opportunity.

6. No coincidence.

"Please remember Victor Jara
In the Santiago Stadium
Es verdad
Those Washington bullets again."

The Clash

My millennials love the Charlie Kirk humor.

I try to tell them that no matter how funny it is, I still don't want to drop everything I'm doing to watch a goddamn thing on their telephones.

I don't disagree with any of it, but people have been saying this for years with far less cumulative evidence.

The thing is, forget whoever is manning Walter Reed these days. Or Dr. Vinnie Boombatz Barbarella, for example.

Trump is the useful idiot for too many awful regimes who want to keep him alive by any means necessary, when they could just as easily take him out in a second.

I have no doubt that the best Russian and Israeli mystery chemicals and treatments available are what's keeping that mofo going. Maybe some Chinese or FElon brain implants as well.

"Everyone knows America on September 10th, 2001 was the high water mark and we'll never come close to that greatness again."

Incredible. Who made up that nonsense?

Of the 3,000 or so dead at 9/11, about 15 or 20 were from my very small high school that graduated about 70 kids a year. Crazy odds.

Too many of them were superoverachievers working at Cantor Fitzgerald. Top floors. There for the Benjamins. Didn't pay off too well.

23. At least I trust you have a spouse. . . . Some around here could claim it all day, but I still wouldn't believe it.

Probably only dementia that keeps my wife hanging in there with me. Gotta play it as it lies.

Actually Islam is so peaceful that we have to remind ourselves how peaceful it is after every single terrorist attack on the west.
#10 | Posted by visitor

Do you moan about the excessive per-capita violence exacted by the State of Israel presumptively under the guise of being a Jewish state?

Or do you wail about the United States, trying at the top to be a Christian nation, being a stupidly vain and thoroughly violent nation, domestically and internationally?

Any Retorters beat their wives in the name of Christ this week?

6. Anyone watching in real time saw the puffs of smoke every thirty or stories or so just before the towers fell in their imprint.

Just like happens when they take down big buildings.

I don't care about theories. I'm just saying what I saw and my immediate reaction.

Earlier this week we drove past an exit in PA for the Flight 97 memorial. If you don't think the US itself took down that plane with a missile, not due to the heroism of its passengers, you be foolin yourself.

To the Retort's credit, I don't see any anti-Semitism here, even among the most mouth-breathing of posters who would have plenty of opportunity to exercise it. I can't say the same for racism, classism, misogyny (left and right), trans hate, and of a bunch of other things, but other than Sentinel trying to rehabilitate the innocence of the swastika, for which he catches plenty of guff, there's not a hint here to me of a "Jew issue."

Been a long time, it seems, that anyone who could be taken at face value here has spoken of Hollywood Jews. They're all libz these days.

The biggest draw for anti-Semites these days should be people like Stephen Miller and Orthodox Jew Jared Kushner. Vile POSs.

Maybe I'm ignorant of the Jew issue. I heard an old friend recently whose last 60 years sounded like one anti-Jewish micro aggression after another for her and her kids, who lived all their lives in mostly Jewish neighborhoods in big cities. Sooner or later one has to ask where the problem is for those folks. And what is the problem really?