Kosh's Shadow 8/16/2020 7:15:18 AM

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Got up earlier than usual on a Sunday.

Black coffee matters

buzzsawmonkey 8/16/2020 7:26:41 AM

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lucius septimius 8/16/2020 7:41:32 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 8/16/2020 8:29:07 AM

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In #3 lucius septimius said: We all wondered whether he'd deliver the commencement address.

Maybe he'd tell the students to think outside the box?

doppelganglander 8/16/2020 8:34:15 AM

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In #4 buzzsawmonkey said: Maybe he'd tell the students to think outside the box? 

You win the internets for the day.

Kosh's Shadow 8/16/2020 8:52:50 AM

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In #2 buzzsawmonkey said: the New Fascist Salute is an upraised arm holding a cell phone.

Il Douchebag!

(Probably thought of that because of the SNL sketch I linked to last week)

Occasional Reader 8/16/2020 9:08:37 AM

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In #3 lucius septimius said: We all wondered whether he'd deliver the commencement address

“No!”

-Marcel Marceau, “Silent Movie” (The only spoken part in the film)

lucius septimius 8/16/2020 9:27:56 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: -Marcel Marceau, “Silent Movie” (The only spoken part in the film)

Which was what I'd posted last night.

Occasional Reader 8/16/2020 12:03:39 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 8/16/2020 12:18:40 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 9:

Not surprising.  Polls  of blacks have their support  for  reducing police at 20% or lower - 60% say funding should remain  the same; 20% more.

They know who keeps them safe from gangs.

It's a Marxist political movement that pushes defund the police.

I think Trump will get a significant chunk  of the black vote. Which by Biden's standards, means a  lot of blacks aren't black/

Occasional Reader 8/16/2020 1:30:16 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 8/16/2020 2:24:15 PM

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The Orcs of Sauron Soros are trying to conquer Middle Class Earth.

Never thought you'd be living "Lord of the Rings," did you?

Kosh's Shadow 8/16/2020 2:29:05 PM

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In #12 buzzsawmonkey said: The Orcs of Sauron Soros are trying to conquer Middle Class Earth. Never thought you'd be living "Lord of the Rings," did you?

Shire I did. I even made a hobbit of it.

buzzsawmonkey 8/16/2020 2:31:13 PM

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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: Shire I did. I even made a hobbit of it.

Wait until the volume is turned up to Elven.

Kosh's Shadow 8/16/2020 3:05:47 PM

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Speaking of Soros, here is an interesting article who likes what Soros is doing in Eastern  Europe, but NOT the way he is supporting partisan politics in the US.

WARNING - you will have to hold your nose for part of the article - but he makes good points about the way Soros is destroying civil conversation in the US

Polarization, tribalization, partisanship, and a general breakdown in civic discourse are all serious problems in America right now, but they are hardly the exclusive preserve of the American right. And to the extent that these baleful phenomena manifest themselves on the American left, George Soros must answer for some of the damage. Soros was an early backer of MoveOn, the aggressively partisan, left-wing organization which once published a full-page advertisement in The New York Times slandering Gen. David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.” Last year, MoveOn published a guide titled “How to Bird-Dog,” providing its followers with tips for harassing elected officials in public. Soros is also a major funder of Media Matters, the watchdog group founded by right-wing hit man turned left-wing hit man David Brock, whose stock-in-trade is the organized boycott of conservative media figures.

Such pressure tactics, aided greatly by the evolution of social media into the primary forum for American public discourse, are a staple of Soros-funded groups. The Center for Popular Democracy, whose executive director accosted Jeff Flake in a Senate elevator, last year organized a “Corporate Backers of Hate” campaign targeting companies it claims “stand to profit from Trump’s hateful agenda.” The group set up a website that allows supporters to flood the inboxes of CEOs of companies they decide are culpable. Such “mass lobbying of individuals in the private sector” is “unprecedented” according to Time.

A difficult, but interesting read.

Kosh's Shadow 8/16/2020 3:14:15 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 15:

I find it illustrative that someone who likes Soros' work in one place does not like it elsewhere. 

I also have to say I would not be shocked if Soros' money was behind Antifa and the BLM riots.

doppelganglander 8/16/2020 4:06:36 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 11:

Congratulations!