Moiraine Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 minute ago, DevoHusker said: Was/is your cousin a southern born and bred gentleman planter? Because otherwise, he is definitely whatever new word that's socially acceptable. Grew up 6 miles from where I grew up, which is in Nebraska. And her dad (my step grandpa) was racist but he voted for Obama. 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 1 hour ago, Moiraine said: I tend to not delete family members on FB even if they're just cousins, but a cousin of mine posted a photo of Robert E. Lee yesterday and under the photo it said "Let's all post photos of Robert E. Lee so he will not be forgotten" (because of his statues being torn down). We need to have a new word that's socially acceptable to describe this kind of stupidity. Deplorable just sayin Take your pick - courtesy of I kind of like this one: dunderheaded Synonyms for stupid airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless Words Related to stupid cretinous, feebleminded, simpleminded boobish, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, silly, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, unreasonable 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 The GOP is going to have to apologize to Jimmy Carter for his misery index - ma-laze of 1980. Putin's plan is working- we are worse than Russia The Trump Misery Index Quote The U.S. is projected to see the worst reversal of fortune this year in a ranking of global economic misery, underscoring just how much havoc the pandemic has wrought. America fell 25 spots, from the No. 50 spot to No. 25, on Bloomberg’s Misery Index, which tallies inflation and unemployment outlooks for 60 economies. The drop comes as President Donald Trump fights for re-election while millions of Americans remain unemployed. Only Iceland, Israel, and Panama were even close to that level of deterioration in the annual rankings. Thursday’s jobless claims, however, indicate a glimmer of improvement: Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell. Almost all of the economies surveyed are projected to be more miserable this year amid Covid-19, with analysts expecting increased joblessness and tepid growth. Venezuela, Argentina, South Africa, and Turkey held on to their unenviable rankings from 2019 as the world’s four most miserable economies, with Venezuela keeping status as the world’s worse for a sixth straight year. The troubled South American country continues to suffer from soaring prices, with Bloomberg’s Cafe Con Leche Index estimating a current inflation rate of 4,043%. Thailand claimed the title of the “least miserable” economy, though the government’s unique way of tallying unemployment makes it less noteworthy than Taiwan’s two-spot improvement to No. 6 or Singapore’s bump to No. 2 on that scale. Link to comment
TGHusker Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 It appears Trump's America would be an America without the Post Office. Trump is effectively setting up the post office as the fall guy for mail in ballots. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/7/21358946/postal-service-mail-delays-election-trump-mail-in-ballots 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 This doesn't necessarily belong in this topic but I didn't want to create a new one. We already had a lot of problems before Trump. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6827090/we-are-witnessing-the-fall-of-a-great-power/?fbclid=IwAR2L8vTOAqNKnKUSiLCHdvfBb2tkStFLL7SA2LPnmp67jvnYzS6YxXoERzg Quote The underlying weakness in present US democracy is that partisanship has become so extreme that the nation is incapable of dealing with the major issues that face it. COVID-19 has illustrated that starkly, with every word and act predicated on party allegiance. Meanwhile, other problems like race, police violence, gun control, inequality, the health system, climate change and energy policy go unattended. The motives of "the other side" are routinely vilified without evidence. The Democrats are blamed for everything. The Republicans can do no wrong. And to a lesser extent, vice versa. My side of politics, right or wrong. In a vicious cause-and-effect circle, the imperative of winning at all costs corrodes the political process, and the corroded political process makes winning at all costs even more imperative. The Trump presidency has made all this worse, but the seeds were there long before. He has appointed incompetent ignorant toadies to the most senior positions in his cabinet and the bureaucracy. He has undermined the Supreme Court with appointments based on politics, not law. 4 1 Link to comment
DevoHusker Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 26 minutes ago, suh_fan93 said: Umm, I think Goodyear is the sole remaining strictly US tire company...and they run them on The Beast. is right... edit: Goodyear and Cooper 1 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Sobering article about Covid and the end of American exceptionalism. Quoted in part below https://www.marketwatch.com/story/covid-has-reduced-to-tatters-the-illusion-of-american-exceptionalism-writes-rollingstone-in-op-ed-11597781594 Quote “In a dark season of pestilence, COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with more than 2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state, ruled by a dysfunctional and incompetent government largely responsible for death rates that added a tragic coda to America’s claim to supremacy in the world.” That’s Wade Davis in an op-ed titled “The Unraveling of America” in Rolling Stone magazine published Aug. 6 that paints a grim picture of the current state of the U.S. Wade Davis is an anthropologist at the University of British Columbia and his post in Rolling Stone has racked up millions of page views since its publication earlier this month. For some readers it drew comparisons with an article written by Matt Taibbi in 2010 titled the “The Great American Bubble Machine” centered on Goldman Sachs as a “vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” In Davis’s article, he suggests that the days of U.S. dominance may be undone by the COVID-19 pandemic that has infected nearly 5.5 million Americans, or more than a quarter of the 21 million global total, thus far, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The critique from the U.S.’s sister country to the north may be a hard pill for some to swallow, as Davis says that America’s obsession with individual rights and liberty at the expense of community has been a key point of weakness for the nation. “More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family,” he wrote. “What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. “ In a CBC article Davis said that he isn’t taking cheap shots at the U.S., which is an ally and trading partner with Canada, but he believes his essay was an attempt to encourage widespread introspection. Quote The prominent economist told MarketWatch in an interview that the dollar’s decline could occur at “warp speed” and that the era of U.S. hegemony may be coming to an end, citing increases in the nation’s fiscal deficit and dwindling savings. Quote Davis says his criticism has less to do with the dominance of the U.S. currency or with the nation’s leadership in the White House, but he points out that growing disparities between haves and have-nots may be the nation’s undoing. “At the root of this transformation and decline lies an ever-widening chasm between Americans who have and those who have little or nothing,” Davis wrote. “The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets.” “Economic disparities exist in all nations, creating a tension that can be as disruptive as the inequities are unjust,” he continued. However, “What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.” The full OPED is here: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/ Link to comment
ZRod Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 9 hours ago, DevoHusker said: Umm, I think Goodyear is the sole remaining strictly US tire company...and they run them on The Beast. is right... edit: Goodyear and Cooper Eh. Goodyear has always been over priced for what you get. Link to comment
schriznoeder Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Only the best people... 1 Link to comment
DevoHusker Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 11 hours ago, ZRod said: Eh. Goodyear has always been over priced for what you get. I personally have purchased Cooper tires whenever needed, for both of our vehicles, since at least early 2000's Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 40 minutes ago, schriznoeder said: Only the best people... And Trump, et al, knew it was coming and tried to cover for them. 1 Link to comment
commando Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 so the go fund me for the border wall was a scam? who woulda thought that? 1 Link to comment
FrantzHardySwag Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 1 hour ago, schriznoeder said: Only the best people... The movie about this is gonna be like Wolf of Wall St - only the characters will be even dumber. 4 Link to comment
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