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Posts Made By: Mel Maki

May 11, 2022 07:23 AM Forum: Politics

And MAGA Thinks Biden's Impaired...

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
Trump, in his own words, at his recent rallies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH6tTQdtxVc
I can see this guy Pakman with his team at a strategy session.

"New direction. Let's show that Biden speaks better than Trump."
Wow! Can't do it. Nobody will believe that!
"We can do it.  Say it's a fact check. Rod in California will believe it!"

May 11, 2022 11:37 AM Forum: Politics

DeSantis On "Chake Qay-Varra" (Che Guevara)

Posted By Mel Maki

This Goody Two Shoes is the S. American Mr. Rogers. Is he from Argentina? He is saying the way Spanish names are mispronounced by this Republican is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the right wing reactionary movement. How many people in this country say Spanish names properly? Instead of politics he could spend more time enjoying his watches. At the end of a you tube he said he has a lot of watches and was showing some of them.  Why do people watch this goof?

May 11, 2022 07:38 PM Forum: Politics

DeSantis On "Chake Qay-Varra" (Che Guevara)

Posted By Mel Maki

You are a creative person. Creative enough to find a point in that video that was not about pronouncing names. The guy is pure torture to watch. If everybody was forced to watch him the Dems would lose five points!

May 11, 2022 07:51 PM Forum: Politics

Merrick Garland Proves once again that he is a leftist hack of an Attorney General

Posted By Mel Maki

The sidewalk in front of my house? I'd have to see what it looked like. I might be a big enough jerk to water the lawn in front of my house. Would not call the police, though.

May 11, 2022 08:34 PM Forum: Politics

DeSantis On "Chake Qay-Varra" (Che Guevara)

Posted By Mel Maki

Originally Posted by James Lacey


If you watched that video, and all you took away is his commentary on mispronouncing foreign names, you missed the point entirely. The main point is that GOP politics revolves around manufacturing culture wars to outrage their constituency. Democrats do it somewhat too, but Republicans do it all the time. They are constantly bouncing from one fake or inconsequential reactionary irritation to another. It's an exhausting spectacle.

David Parkman also points out that the desire to teach the history of how communism has oppressed people is hardly a priority for Florida, given they have real and consequential problems to address. I find it a bit funny that DeSantis thinks that teaching the history of legalized segregation and how it oppressed people is awful, and we must ban it from our schools. But we should mandate studying how communism has oppressed people in our schools? Tell me you're manufacturing culture wars without telling me you're manufacturing culture wars.
During the cold war my high school (67-69) gave seniors a class on communism and Marx. Very few of us knew anything about communism. Proletariat? They did teach it was a failed system.

May 12, 2022 12:54 AM Forum: Politics

Roe Vs Wade Overturned

Posted By Mel Maki

Not too many years ago some fairly normal people believed some really crazy things! Even with all the bad things we are up against, I'll choose to be alive now.

May 12, 2022 01:12 AM Forum: Politics

May 12, 2022 01:14 AM Forum: Politics

The Best Selling Truck in America And

Posted By Mel Maki

I think the gas F-Series has been the best selling vehicle in the US.
I don't feel right if I don't own a truck. A diesel truck. That will change.  Anybody doubt we will have an electric truck with an 800 mile range?

May 12, 2022 01:22 AM Forum: Politics

Another SCOTUS Leak

Posted By Mel Maki

Who is correct?
Totenberg-Leaker is conservative, will not be caught.
Cruz-Leaker is liberal, will be caught.

May 12, 2022 01:27 AM Forum: Politics

The Republicans Who Voted Against Aid For Ukraine

Posted By Mel Maki

You can be straight about this. Conservatives do not support Putin in this war. They want him to lose.