DP Blogs

YES, hell YES, I am partisan. I am, after all, a liberal Snowflake, and a Canadian to boot. Despite that, I voted for the Conservatives in our last provincial election (Ontario). But all you get to hear on forums like this one is how corrupt the other side is. Downright evil, even. Hence why the States has problems we thankfully don't have (at least not to the degree Americans have). Intolerance, bigotry, ignorance, and hyper-partisan where EVERYTHING my guy does or says is acceptable and EVERYTHING your guy says is foolish and stupid. However, being the partisan leftie that I am, there is no equivalency. There might be some dishonest politicians on the Left, some corrupt ones, kooky ones. There might be some leftist views that...

Thirty five years ago today disability rights activist Sally Lucas took on the Bradley Commission's error in hiring an able-bodied person as director for the LA Commission on Disabilities. The disabled were there to protest Bradley’s record on disabled issues, most particularly his decision last year to hire a psychologist who is not disabled to run the mayor’s Office for the Disabled. To some disabled people, the hiring was as surprising as if Bradley named a man to run the city Commission on the Status of Women or designated a white aide as his liaison to black neighborhoods in South-Central Los Angeles. There were also many complaints that the naming of a non-disabled person was insulting in that it suggested that disabled people...

George Santos is one of Washington's most enigmatic political figures. 95% of what he says is a lie and can be disproven. For example, in 2016, he said four people he worked with died at the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. After a later media investigation, this statement turned out to be a lie. I. The Pulse Night Club Lie In the wake of the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, George Santos claimed that four of his employees died in the shooting. The New York Times did a deep dive into Santos's backstory, and it turned out that most, if not all, of what he said was a lie. II. The Brazilian Lie In 2011, 19-year-old George Santos stole two checks from his mother's former employer and used them to buy goods totaling over...

Willie Felix Carter is a Democratic candidate whose slogan is “Doing the right thing.” The writing on his website has awkward words, quotations, run-on sentences, outlines of ideas, sentence fragments, and a strong focus on religiousness. Mr. Carter may belong to the wrong party as his heavy emphasis on religion might suggest. The first part of his plan is to fix the economy. This includes ending hunger and homelessness and creating jobs. He believes the “Right Solution is Seeking God’s Help As Did Our Founding Fathers at the Beginning of this Great Exposition.” To support his plan, he quotes the Declaration of Independence: “We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled...

There seems to be a host of things that I have said that have given the impression that I'm in my situation because of bad choices. I think that takes a little clarification and rather than do that anywhere else, I figured this would be a good spot. That way, only those who care to know, can check it out :) Born to drug addicts in the 70s. Raised myself until I went homeless at 16 when I ran away from home after being sexually exploited, raped, beaten, molested, while being passed between family members. At 17, I was working and began dating the only man close to my age I knew who had a job. I applied for college, but was told my parents had to sign everything because I was underage, even though I had already graduated. My biggest...

One of my favorite political pundits put this to paper the other day and I found it provocative and I'd like to hear your thoughts: ----------------------------------------------------- Billionaire tech bro Peter Thiel says he's paid to have his body cryonically frozen when he dies in hopes he can be revived if and when future generations figure out a solution for whatever causes his future death. =AZVODgshUhoetHlPyqCr7remmo3PfOOgadAdYq2rds04G-2pAwVZH1FJAHTfPby-4qJpzlGHX076zZC6xfgb4-X4pL36pLRzTh8Z0fElGpxeCWtW-gxBYnyqhN309YA973mx_FQIGDFGGSCR9wzvN9uAIsY3sf7_ntcDsWy-o-LEFKFJk0cFH8eaL_JnHbSqUNA&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R']Justin Rosario · I want him to do this. I want all of the horrible greedy rich people to freeze themselves in hopes of...

Charles III, at 74, is the oldest person crowned ever King of England. He's rebuilt his reputation since his divorce and the tragic death of his first wife, the wildely popular Diana. But he's certainly not beloved by anyone. His son William is forty. William and Kate are much more popular than Charles has ever been. To me, it's clear that the right thing for the monarchy was for Charles to step aside and allow William and Kate to polish its dingy luster. Apparently, I'm nearly alone in this opinion. The gerontocracies of the world are so entrenched that next to no one spoke against the clearly fading Charles, and his lady of a certain age consort, being crowned at a time when the younger couple could do so much more to repopularize...

"I went on the internet this morning, and I found this, and wanted to share." ------------------------------- =AZWey_pE-CQcSZxnQ3i2O4B7vwjnQF5F6zhGxmP4Kn38f2LFR2bEZa9eDmJ0PpO2PS_xNCfe1IfDYUtgslIuC6UkmUh0TUkBpPBrwE1oUNnXY98m0EKTE9C3cwBLVMj1tj52Rh6oZQ9-iw7FTDKThvAjUCvIuK7gNX0Pn0wjyY5N2lQAmF6IEtwaq_awiJVY_iw&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R']Michael J. Tallon · Joseph Heller was born 100 years old today, and in my silly, mostly worthless opinion, he did what we human beings are supposed to do on this pretty blue marble of a planet: He saw both the beauty and the madness existence had to offer, and he drew glorious art all over its sad and lovely face. You know how well he succeeded if you’ve spent time with his work. To celebrate him today, I’ll pull...

Just had my first “real life” political debate over discord with a political streamer. In a bizarre series of events on Twitter where he immediately escalated to calling me a Nazi then saying I should go on his show to debate him. He's a pretty obscure online figure so you probably haven't heard him and the debate is ridiculously long but I thought I'd post it anyway just in case someone is interested. I think I did fine all things considered. But it is of course MUCH harder to discuss things in real time than over forum posts. There are a lot of things I wish I'd said and some things I wish I hadn't but you have to start somewhere. Any feedback would of course be welcome.