The New Lounge

[denverexpat]

My favorite quote from MLK and appropriate given the pardons -
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[Dattier]

Great quote. My favorite Dr. King quotations are the uncomfortable ones that challenge people. (While inspiring and very relevant culturally and historically, most of the "I Have a Dream" speech doesn't really qualify as challenging anymore, for example. Most of us have accepted the gist of that.)

 

[KDSTONE]

Great quote. My favorite Dr. King quotations are the uncomfortable ones that challenge people. (While inspiring and very relevant culturally and historically, most of the "I Have a Dream" speech doesn't really qualify as challenging anymore, for example. Most of us have accepted the gist of that.)

lol. Judging someone based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin is the exact opposite of quotas in hiring and school admissions that your side has supported for decades.

 

[Dattier]

lol. Judging someone based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin is the exact opposite of quotas in hiring and school admissions that your side has supported for decades.

I understand why you see it that way.

 

[Mac9192]

I wonder how many liberals out there are saying to themselves that if they hadn’t cheated four years ago, they wouldn’t have to worry about Trump now.

 

[KDSTONE]

I wonder how many liberals out there are saying to themselves that if they hadn’t cheated four years ago, they wouldn’t have to worry about Trump now.

Not as many as you’d think I’d wager. Self reflection is not their strong suit, especially the ones afflicted with TDS.
Looks like the Left is taking a break from calling for genocide and will now take to the streets protesting the deportations. Where were they when Obama was President? More selective outrage from the usual suspects.

 

[smashmouth5]

Trump orders declassification of MLK, RFK and JFK files

Trump had promised on the campaign trail that he would make the documents public.

justthenews.com

Should be interesting.

 

[Dattier]

Trump orders declassification of MLK, RFK and JFK files

Trump had promised on the campaign trail that he would make the documents public.

justthenews.com

Should be interesting.

From what I remember from US History in my junior year of high school in 1988-1989, the Warren Report sealed the findings of the JFK assassination for 75 years, which would be another 12 years (from the assassination) or thereabouts. I also understood at the time that that timeline was to make it more likely that Jackie, Caroline, and Jr might be dead and wouldn't have to go through the triggering public disclosure of it, which is sweet and all, but never impressed me as a priority over the spirit behind the FOIA, passed in 1966.

Therefore, I see no reason this isn't a great EO, pending what the mainstream media tells me to think instead. A tentative thumbs-up from me to our 47th President, Donald J Trump, for this one specific EO.

 

[Dattier]

I wonder how many liberals out there are saying to themselves that if they hadn’t cheated four years ago, they wouldn’t have to worry about Trump now.

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You are erroneously assuming that cheating in 2020 is a foregone conclusion that any rational person accepts. It's sort of like saying 'what if President Reagan had taken AIDS seriously in 1982?', which -- hatred of gay people aside and among the many, many things President Reagan did wrong that have had such cataclysmically detrimental results today -- is a little unfair, as there really wasn't any way to anticipate that AIDS would be the big thing we know it to be in retrospect.

Regardless, there was no election fraud in 2020, so no liberals or intelligent Republicans are 'shucking their corn' over the alternate Universe where you have a clue and we'd be done with President Trump as the 45th and only the 45th POTUS right now.

 

[pisgah101]

From what I remember from US History in my junior year of high school in 1988-1989, the Warren Report sealed the findings of the JFK assassination for 75 years, which would be another 12 years (from the assassination) or thereabouts. I also understood at the time that that timeline was to make it more likely that Jackie, Caroline, and Jr might be dead and wouldn't have to go through the triggering public disclosure of it, which is sweet and all, but never impressed me as a priority over the spirit behind the FOIA, passed in 1966.

Therefore, I see no reason this isn't a great EO, pending what the mainstream media tells me to think instead. A tentative thumbs-up from me to our 47th President, Donald J Trump, for this one specific EO.

I should pin this reply lol.

 

[Dattier]

I should pin this reply lol.

Feel free. I'm not scared of truth. Never have been. It will only help my case when I dare criticize President Trump in a logical, rational manner at some later date and someone -- @Mac9192 , most likely -- accuses me of being a sheep and dismisses me as someone who twists everything for my political agenda. You know, projecting what conservatives do here onto me.

Pin it.
I double-dog dare you.
You won't, because you're no different from the other conservative hypocrites here.

 

[Dattier]

'Blatantly unconstitutional': US judge temporarily blocks Trump's ban on birthright citizenship​

Thoughts? I mean, y'all have an additional 39 EOs from his first day to defend, by my count. Anyone wanna take up this one? The link is to FoxNews, which I presume you trust enough to accept that a Reagan-appointed judge did, in fact, temporarily block that particular EO.