"Well last night Hegseth said Vladimir Putin is doing this because "we’re running around talking about genders and reparations and all of this."
People used to have a sense of right and wrong. Being altruistic, kind, understanding, open-minded? Good. Not always easy, not always the only way to go, but something that we all should aspire to. It seemed natural. If we can spare all that, and be all that, why not? Being aggressive, ignorant, bigoted, selfish, on the other hand? Maybe not outright evil, but if you want to be evil it was a good start.. That was the societal consensus I grew up in.
In the last ten years or so, all that changed. Being kind, understanding, open-minded? A sign of weakness. Being aggressive, ignorant, bigoted, selfish? A sign of strength. Not for everybody, but for enough people to cause a societal rift.
I don't think Hegseth is wrong when he says what he says. What he doesn't understand, I think, is that Putin is not exploiting the supposed weakness of the desire for a fair and kind and open world, he's exploiting the weakness of a divided America. He's exploiting that America is not leading by example anymore. That any legitimacy she ever had of calling herself a "shining city on the hill" is gone. And that is not due to Biden, or Obama, or AOC, that's due to the likes of Hegseth, Carlson, Trump. They are the ones driving the division, they are the ones driving the notion that good is actually evil, that bad is actually good.
And Putin, for his part, picked the perfect time for his invasion. A bitterly divided America in which no matter how her president reacts it will be exploited by his opposition. A strong response? Warmonger. A weak response? Weakling. Something in-between? They will find something.
The world goes to shits because too many people are shit. I wish there was another way to see it but I don't.
The country on your border is always invading, or getting ready to invade, or looking like it's thinking about invading, or a potential invader at some distant future time.
OSP Blue: "And that is how you go on to conquer the entire world defensively."
PUTIN: I vant naked pictures of Bea Arthur, and I vant them NOW.TUCKER: Right away Your Highness.TUCKER RETURNS TO RUSSIA: Your pictures, Your Majesty…behold!PUTIN: I vanted them in color. I vant them…I don’t care if you have to go to Rio de Janeiro to get them!TUCKER (bows humbly): Yes, Sire!
Umm, being hit by a train is always stupidity. They don't magically appear from nowhere, the tracks always give them away. Same goes for living in a potential conflict zone, keep your eyes open and be ready to move in an instant.
"Well last night Hegseth said Vladimir Putin is doing this because "we’re running around talking about genders and reparations and all of this."
People used to have a sense of right and wrong. Being altruistic, kind, understanding, open-minded? Good. Not always easy, not always the only way to go, but something that we all should aspire to. It seemed natural. If we can spare all that, and be all that, why not? Being aggressive, ignorant, bigoted, selfish, on the other hand? Maybe not outright evil, but if you want to be evil it was a good start.. That was the societal consensus I grew up in.
In the last ten years or so, all that changed. Being kind, understanding, open-minded? A sign of weakness. Being aggressive, ignorant, bigoted, selfish? A sign of strength. Not for everybody, but for enough people to cause a societal rift.
I don't think Hegseth is wrong when he says what he says. What he doesn't understand, I think, is that Putin is not exploiting the supposed weakness of the desire for a fair and kind and open world, he's exploiting the weakness of a divided America. He's exploiting that America is not leading by example anymore. That any legitimacy she ever had of calling herself a "shining city on the hill" is gone. And that is not due to Biden, or Obama, or AOC, that's due to the likes of Hegseth, Carlson, Trump. They are the ones driving the division, they are the ones driving the notion that good is actually evil, that bad is actually good.
And Putin, for his part, picked the perfect time for his invasion. A bitterly divided America in which no matter how her president reacts it will be exploited by his opposition. A strong response? Warmonger. A weak response? Weakling. Something in-between? They will find something.
The world goes to shits because too many people are shit. I wish there was another way to see it but I don't.
The coveted "Republican whose grave I am least likely to shit upon" award goes to Rep. Kinzinger.
The rich are way richer, and the poor are way poorer, and that was really Ronnie's goal.
You make a compelling point.
But he's personally made billions so...
Tucker knows he's not going to be held accountable at all.
And that's one reason why he's doing what he's doing. It's a pretty good reason too.
This sentence alone "more verifiable lies about Joe Biden's family connections with Ukraine"
"1991? really?" "yes really. 10yrs is a long time blah blah blah.... I guess more than 30 years isn't that long in geoblahblahblah.... math up
Tucker outright recycling Yellow Peril propaganda in 3... 2...
The country on your border is always invading, or getting ready to invade, or looking like it's thinking about invading, or a potential invader at some distant future time.
OSP Blue: "And that is how you go on to conquer the entire world defensively."
This could be rephrased (perhaps more cynically) as the Reagan remembered by his party is quickly becoming Putin.
Blaming Biden.
PUTIN: I vant naked pictures of Bea Arthur, and I vant them NOW.TUCKER: Right away Your Highness.TUCKER RETURNS TO RUSSIA: Your pictures, Your Majesty…behold!PUTIN: I vanted them in color. I vant them…I don’t care if you have to go to Rio de Janeiro to get them!TUCKER (bows humbly): Yes, Sire!
Kind of gross that Mitch has been in the Senate for longer than I've been alive.
Thanks Obama!
Umm, being hit by a train is always stupidity. They don't magically appear from nowhere, the tracks always give them away. Same goes for living in a potential conflict zone, keep your eyes open and be ready to move in an instant.