Idk Kara I have so little hope they will recover their sanity. Too many words to eat. Our current NYC mayor even, usually quite a pragmatist, has just reaffirmed his fealty to the cult. Maybe he’s trying to gain on the progressive lunatic socialist Jew-hater now leading the race. Screw them all I say.
Yes, let's get every last one of them out of office.
I (a registered Democrat for 50 years) now devote all my political time, energy, and money to electing as many Republicans as possible to as many offices as possible, at all levels.
Our pols act as if self-id is the law, and some states have incorporated it into their laws, even constitutions, right? What will it take to undo that, Kara?
Politicians who deny girls and women control over what happens inside our OWN bodies?
Who refuse to enact common sense gun safety legislation that empowers responsible gun-ownership, while keeping guns out of the hands of the irresponsible, like every other democratic nation?
Who are more loyal to the oil industry than to the survival of their own grandchildren and great-grandchildren?
The Republican Party is far too deep in the pockets of their own special interest lobbies.
I probably shouldn't take this on, but your talking points are straight out of the lying leftist bubble and I want to state some facts to consider for those who might not venture far outside that bubble.
Taking your points in order, except the first (that is too polarizing), guns: there are already thousands of gun laws in this country that the Left refuses to enforce for the criminals who have thousands of illegal guns and use them to commit most of the gun crimes. Legal gun owners mostly handle their guns responsibly, though yes I know you can point to news stories to the contrary. But for every shooting with a licensed gun there are hundreds if not thousands of unreported incidents where gun owners protected themselves and others, or prevented crimes.
"Climate change" is a fraud and a grift that is so big many people can't see it for what it is, CO2 is not poison, it's plant food and we need more of it. Even if it were a good thing to restrict CO2, which it's not, the entire developed world is now only responsible for about 30% of all CO2 emissions and if we destroyed our economies entirely in an impossible quest to run everything on solar and wind, it would make no difference except that we will mostly be dead. Which is the point for the extreme global warmists. Oil and gas provides over 80% of our energy use and is also irreplaceable as a chemical feedstock for millions of products we can't do without. Natural gas is the basis for fertilizer without which we would all starve (see Sri Lanka when they were persuaded to go organic farming, within a year they couldn't feed their population). "Loyalty" to the oil and gas industry is an irrelevant concept, it's only common sense that we need to maintain the flow of energy that we all depend on. I could go on with many more hard facts on this topic but there is not space for it here. See "Energy Security and Freedom" Substack by Thomas Shepstone for more than you probably want to know.
The comment about special interest lobbies is such a ridiculous case of projection that it almost doesn't even merit a response, all I can say is that the Democratic Party is entirely captured by extremist Groups who are forcing the party into insane policies that are destructive and have no popular support. So who is in the "pocket of special interest lobbies"? The Republicans have their special interests, of course, but are mostly pursuing policies that they ran on and have majority support and broad appeal to many constituencies.
And your talking points are straight out of the lying right-wing bubble.
Two-thirds of Americans support abortion rights. More than two-thirds support gun safety laws in line with other democratic nations, such as Canada. And the majority of Americans understand that the extreme climate events we're living through in these recent decades are due to human-made climate change, which can only be addressed by stopping the pollution of our atmosphere with oil-industry pollutants.
So don't bother to claim that Republicans have majority support, much less broad appeal, on any of the issues I named.
You're right. You shouldn't take this on. Because I clearly know more about all of these issues than you, and--most importantly--you're speaking disrespectfully to me.
"Subscribers to this Substack have a variety of views about all of those topics, and I would prefer that this not be a space for debating them. Respectful discussions are always welcome, of course."--Kara Dansky
I knew that this would probably happen, and I apologize for any disrespect. I will take any further discussion elsewhere. The Left and Right have reached the point where they disagree on fundamental facts, not just opinions, and there can be no dialog when there is no common set of facts.
I stand by the facts I stated, whether you agree or not. Likely I was disrespectful to call the leftist media liars, which you countered with your own disrespectful comment. I think we are even and I will not respond to any more comments on this topic.
And I am a scientist by profession with a 40 year career in the field which has provided me with a very strong basis for evaluating the facts in technical areas such as environmental, energy, numerical modeling, and climate science.
Democrats can NEVER walk this "trans/gender identity" shit back. We're supposed to forget how DEMOCRATS sexualized children? We're supposed to forget every girl humiliated in sports then told by DEMOCRATS to just suck it up and move over 'cause there's new "girls' in town? We're supposed to get over the fact that a DEMOCRAT administration deemed parents terrorists when they protested the pro-rape DEMOCRAT school board policy of allowing males into the girls restrooms? The father whose daughter was sodomized by the pervert boy, a boy DEMOCRATS championed, that father was thrown in jail by DEMOCRATS. Please review all the videos on Reduxx.info or Libs of Tik Tok regarding the harm caused by DEMOCRATS. Even one offense is unforgivable, there are thousands!
Idk Kara I have so little hope they will recover their sanity. Too many words to eat. Our current NYC mayor even, usually quite a pragmatist, has just reaffirmed his fealty to the cult. Maybe he’s trying to gain on the progressive lunatic socialist Jew-hater now leading the race. Screw them all I say.
Yes, let's get every last one of them out of office.
I (a registered Democrat for 50 years) now devote all my political time, energy, and money to electing as many Republicans as possible to as many offices as possible, at all levels.
Our pols act as if self-id is the law, and some states have incorporated it into their laws, even constitutions, right? What will it take to undo that, Kara?
Correct. Self ID has been the law in most blue states for the past decade or so.
Electing supermajorities of Republicans is the one and only way to undo those laws.
Support Republicans.
Politicians who deny girls and women control over what happens inside our OWN bodies?
Who refuse to enact common sense gun safety legislation that empowers responsible gun-ownership, while keeping guns out of the hands of the irresponsible, like every other democratic nation?
Who are more loyal to the oil industry than to the survival of their own grandchildren and great-grandchildren?
The Republican Party is far too deep in the pockets of their own special interest lobbies.
Can't do it.
I probably shouldn't take this on, but your talking points are straight out of the lying leftist bubble and I want to state some facts to consider for those who might not venture far outside that bubble.
Taking your points in order, except the first (that is too polarizing), guns: there are already thousands of gun laws in this country that the Left refuses to enforce for the criminals who have thousands of illegal guns and use them to commit most of the gun crimes. Legal gun owners mostly handle their guns responsibly, though yes I know you can point to news stories to the contrary. But for every shooting with a licensed gun there are hundreds if not thousands of unreported incidents where gun owners protected themselves and others, or prevented crimes.
"Climate change" is a fraud and a grift that is so big many people can't see it for what it is, CO2 is not poison, it's plant food and we need more of it. Even if it were a good thing to restrict CO2, which it's not, the entire developed world is now only responsible for about 30% of all CO2 emissions and if we destroyed our economies entirely in an impossible quest to run everything on solar and wind, it would make no difference except that we will mostly be dead. Which is the point for the extreme global warmists. Oil and gas provides over 80% of our energy use and is also irreplaceable as a chemical feedstock for millions of products we can't do without. Natural gas is the basis for fertilizer without which we would all starve (see Sri Lanka when they were persuaded to go organic farming, within a year they couldn't feed their population). "Loyalty" to the oil and gas industry is an irrelevant concept, it's only common sense that we need to maintain the flow of energy that we all depend on. I could go on with many more hard facts on this topic but there is not space for it here. See "Energy Security and Freedom" Substack by Thomas Shepstone for more than you probably want to know.
The comment about special interest lobbies is such a ridiculous case of projection that it almost doesn't even merit a response, all I can say is that the Democratic Party is entirely captured by extremist Groups who are forcing the party into insane policies that are destructive and have no popular support. So who is in the "pocket of special interest lobbies"? The Republicans have their special interests, of course, but are mostly pursuing policies that they ran on and have majority support and broad appeal to many constituencies.
And your talking points are straight out of the lying right-wing bubble.
Two-thirds of Americans support abortion rights. More than two-thirds support gun safety laws in line with other democratic nations, such as Canada. And the majority of Americans understand that the extreme climate events we're living through in these recent decades are due to human-made climate change, which can only be addressed by stopping the pollution of our atmosphere with oil-industry pollutants.
So don't bother to claim that Republicans have majority support, much less broad appeal, on any of the issues I named.
You're right. You shouldn't take this on. Because I clearly know more about all of these issues than you, and--most importantly--you're speaking disrespectfully to me.
"Subscribers to this Substack have a variety of views about all of those topics, and I would prefer that this not be a space for debating them. Respectful discussions are always welcome, of course."--Kara Dansky
I knew that this would probably happen, and I apologize for any disrespect. I will take any further discussion elsewhere. The Left and Right have reached the point where they disagree on fundamental facts, not just opinions, and there can be no dialog when there is no common set of facts.
Science is factual.
I base all my opinions on science.
If you were really apologetic about your disrespect, you'd delete your disrespectful comment.
I stand by the facts I stated, whether you agree or not. Likely I was disrespectful to call the leftist media liars, which you countered with your own disrespectful comment. I think we are even and I will not respond to any more comments on this topic.
And I am a scientist by profession with a 40 year career in the field which has provided me with a very strong basis for evaluating the facts in technical areas such as environmental, energy, numerical modeling, and climate science.
Democrats can NEVER walk this "trans/gender identity" shit back. We're supposed to forget how DEMOCRATS sexualized children? We're supposed to forget every girl humiliated in sports then told by DEMOCRATS to just suck it up and move over 'cause there's new "girls' in town? We're supposed to get over the fact that a DEMOCRAT administration deemed parents terrorists when they protested the pro-rape DEMOCRAT school board policy of allowing males into the girls restrooms? The father whose daughter was sodomized by the pervert boy, a boy DEMOCRATS championed, that father was thrown in jail by DEMOCRATS. Please review all the videos on Reduxx.info or Libs of Tik Tok regarding the harm caused by DEMOCRATS. Even one offense is unforgivable, there are thousands!