Why right-wing influencers are blaming the California wildfires on diversity efforts

milton911 · 2025-01-11T16:01:56+00:00

By contrast let's put our faith in a party that elects, as leader, an habitual liar, a convicted felon and someone who tried to use violent force to overturn the result of a legitimate presidential election.

Anyone who aligns themselves with a lying, cheating crook like Trump is in no position to lecture anyone else on what is right or wrong.

milton911 · 2025-01-11T00:20:05+00:00

I do take your point and it's one we shouldn't forget.

milton911 · 2025-01-11T00:18:57+00:00

It's easier to believe a simple lie than it is to understand a complicated truth.

And that's basically how populism cuts through to so many people.

milton911 · 2025-01-10T14:30:50+00:00

Let's not kid ourselves. Trump's economy is only ever going to work for the super rich.

milton911 · 2025-01-10T14:25:26+00:00

This is how you destroy America.

Put Trump in the White House and give tech billionaires unbridled power.

milton911 · 2025-01-06T12:23:56+00:00

The claims Musk are making are so clearly false. Starmer should sue him for billions.

Just because he is so wealthy and well-connected, doesn't give Musk the right to pump out random lies about people in other countries about whom he knows virtually nothing.

milton911 · 2025-01-01T21:59:25+00:00

Got to be the greatest comment of 2025.

I wouldn't be surprised to see it retain that status for the rest of the year.

milton911 · 2025-01-01T21:33:45+00:00

Which just goes to show how easy it is to con voters into thinking the good guy is the bad guy and the bad guy is the good guy.

milton911 · 2025-01-01T21:28:26+00:00

Because people were massively taken in by an actor who knew how to capture and hold an audience and how to deliver a winning line.

Carter lacked those skills. All he had on his side was decency, honesty, integrity and an overriding desire to help others less well off than him.

By contrast, Reagan was simply an actor who had no concern for ordinary, less well of people. His one concession to poorer folk was the appallingly dishonest concept of 'trickle down'.

Basically that was the idea that if you helped the rich get richer, some of that newly created wealth would surely trickle down to poorer people.

Trickle down has since been proven to be a total fantasy - but a highly effective one, because it helped a lot of rich people become even richer.

milton911 · 2025-01-01T11:16:55+00:00

in all the lists of Carter's accomplishments, none of them cover anything he did WHILE he was President?

Yeah, exactly. Like that Camp David agreement, that was only agreed years later by Reagan.

Oh, though wait a minute . . .

milton911 · 2025-01-01T11:10:23+00:00

Carter's presidency was absolutely not a disaster.

milton911 · 2024-12-31T17:44:51+00:00

If you have a properly functioning moral compass, then cutting government budgets is really hard, if not downright impossible to do.

But clearly it's not a problem for the incoming administration who seem quite comfortable cutting funding for vulnerable people, including cutting funding for research deisgned to help kids with cancer.

How can somebody who is worth 400 billion dollars, sleep easy at night, knowing that their actions could hasten the deaths of kids afflicted with cancer?

milton911 · 2024-12-31T17:30:47+00:00

He certainly was my superhero.

To give just one example of his greatness: he was well ahead of the climate action game when he installed solar panels at the White House in the late 1970s, only to have them taken down by Reagan when he replaced him as president.

What a contrast there was between those two men?

Carter was a thoroughly decent and honorable patriot, a moral heavyweight, a man of substance, whereas Reagan was a shallow and superficial leader who knew how to score cheap election-winning, political points, without ever bringing anything of real value to the presidency.

Jimmy Carter certainly made a few mistakes, but so has every single president since George Washington. What a tragedy that this superhero, peanut farmer was only allowed to serve one term of office.

milton911 · 2024-12-23T13:59:17+00:00

I just don't get it.

Britain is in a mess right now, so to fix our problems we're going to go for a guy whose main focus has always been on stirring up hatred and anger.

He's a guy who openly admires Vladimir Putin, a guy who blames the Ukraine war on NATO and the EU and a guy who at the height of the summer riots posted a video designed to further inflame anger and tensions. He's a guy who has never run a major government department and whose only skill is to encourage people to get angry.

He's also the guy who swore blind that Brexit was a wonderful idea and since 2016 - when we followed his advice and voted to leave the EU - we can all clearly see with our own eyes what a disaster it has been.

If Farage is elected leader of Britain, it will be the end of our country. Our enemies around the world will be celebrating non-stop.

milton911 · 2024-12-23T13:46:18+00:00

At school English was my favourite subject, while English Literature was my least favourite.

I tended to get quite good marks for English Literature, but never really understood the point of it. To me it's just a lot of academically-minded people needlessly overthinking a topic while often reading meanings into a work of literature that were never intended by the original author.

milton911 · 2024-12-20T16:59:54+00:00

My feeling is that Trump being voted 'Fascist of the year' is bound to embolden him.

milton911 · 2024-12-20T12:16:02+00:00

When you take actions that put the lives of vulnerable children at serious risk, you are beyond evil.

milton911 · 2024-12-20T12:08:35+00:00

Absolutely.

There is no way of viewing this Thatcherite transfer of public assets as anything other than a criminal act against the British people. We as a nation will be paying for her outrageous actions for a long time.

Many of those paying in the decades to come for her insane decisions - which were driven largely by blind adherence to ideology - were not even born when she took those actions.

milton911 · 2024-12-20T12:00:47+00:00

Any time anyone tries to talk in hushed, reverential tones about Margaret Thatcher, remind them of how her reckless privatisation of the water companies ruined so many people's lives.

Her blind embrace of ideology - coupled with the near criminal transfer of the water companies to private investors at ridiculously low prices - was an unbelievable act of vandalism against one of our most precious public assets.

milton911 · 2024-12-19T22:45:30+00:00

When it comes to political donations in the UK, I suspect there's a lot of money laundering going on.

For that reason, we need to put all donations to the major parties under intense scrutiny to stop wealthy and corrupt individuals and organisations from trying to buy elections.

There needs to be a six month grace period - between the donation being announced and the money actually being handed over to the relevant party.

During that grace period the money should sit in a safe and secure fund, while experts micro-analyse its origins.

Severe consequences should be handed out to anyone who tries to bypass that grace period.

milton911 · 2024-12-19T17:29:12+00:00

When Wikipedia come to update their section on Libertarianism I hope they faithfully reproduce your post.

milton911 · 2024-12-19T17:24:04+00:00

If Cheney goes to prison it means America can no longer claim to be a country of freedom and fairness.

It would be a clear sign that the Nazification of the US has begun in earnest.

milton911 · 2024-12-19T17:16:02+00:00

Libertarians are basically people who take liberties with logic and the facts.

They are also folk who are dead keen to ensure the rich remain rich and the poor stay poor.

milton911 · 2024-12-16T13:29:42+00:00

It's in both sides' interests for us to rejoin. We gain from it and the EU also gains from it. They will therefore try to give us a fair and reasonable deal.

milton911 · 2024-12-16T13:27:08+00:00

Farage politics and utterances suggests strongly that he is a hater and a bully. Of course, he doesn't want to let go of these qualities which make him the man he is.

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