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Brent employs the old tactic of using the consequences of discrimination to justify continuing that discrimination. For example, it was long argued (especially in the former confederate states) that it would be a waste of money to provide public education to former slaves and their descendants as they were not intelligent enough to make use of that education. As "proof" they pointed to the very low literacy rate amongst those former slaves. Of course they neglected to mention that slave states had strict laws forbidding teaching slaves to read and write, so the very low literacy rate had nothing to do with intelligence. So, we are left with a couple of choices regarding Brent's post. Either he is incapable of understanding that he is perpetuating a practice that has historically excluded half the human race from being recognized as intelligent creative people fully capable of inventing useful products, or else he does understand what he is perpetuating and chooses to do so anyway. Neither option speaks well of him.

Agreed, but color me thankful for an asshole in GOP leadership who hasn't completely severed his tether to reality.

He's still an asshole.

i would have to respectfully disagree. they may not be able to enforce any action but they can damned well make something happen, and if they can't ensure the safety of jumpers, why bother having it around? seems to me like there was a liaison i heard of with uspa and faa, someone who had our interests in mind, or something to that effect that i recall hearing about. been a while ago, so maybe not, but there should be.

This is the smoking gun... this should end the Columbia River landing speculation. Rataczak telephoned Soderlind 5 to 10 min after last contact at 8:05.. The "bump" aka oscillation occurred between 8:05 and the call to Soderlind 5 to 10 minutes later.. Rataczak has stated elsewhere that he thought Cooper jumped around Merwin and was gone before Portland. Here he gives a range, the end point is the suburbs of Portland, but the range stated is not where he thinks the "bump" occurred, he is referring to the call to Soderlind. Otherwise, he would not have given a range. The call to Soderlind was in the suburbs of Portland. Obviously the "bump" was some time before that. There is no way the "bump" was over/near the Columbia or beyond Portland. If the "bump" was Cooper jumping he must have jumped roughly between Merwin and Battleground exactly where the FBI/Soderlind analysis indicated.. they had the call log. The only argument left is to claim the "bump" was not Cooper leaving the plane.. I don't see any evidence to support that.

?? Progressives are all for progress. In fact, it's right there in the name. Where your anger comes from, I suspect, is that progressives generally don't say "hey, they don't hang blacks any more! We're done here." They keep pushing for (wait for it . . . wait for it) progress. And that can be frustrating to conservatives, who hear about social progress and think "we went to all that effort to change - and now we don't hang blacks any more! What more do they want? Why can't they see PROGRESS?" We might even need to use (gasp!) SOLAR! Why, pretty soon we will suck the Sun dry.

You're right, we need to be more woke.

I hear he's currently searching prior art for his improved, spring loaded pancake spatula and a coin with an invisible string to defeat the turn styles at Disneyland.

Option 3 - He knows full well what he's doing, and is doing it specifically to generate responses.

Here is a link to an article about an apology that he made for using the N word repeatedly on his program. He now says he doesn't use it any more, and even when he did, it was only for illustrative purposes. I'm nowhere near interested enough in Joe Rogan to go research all those uses in context (he says that the context of the repeated times is critical). Note I'm not trying to cancel Joe Rogan; he's a comedian who's now found that there's more money in saying stuff that gets people riled up. But he's also against political polarization, and he's for a lot of things I'm for. Except for that whole COVID thing. For a long, long, time, there were no or few consequences for white people mistreating, falsely accusing, or anything else people of color, especially black. Consider all the trials where people have been acquitted of the most egregious behavior. So maybe, just maybe, there should be some consequences now. Wendy P.

And the right loves him cause he says nigger and compares black people to planet of the apes. Like being at the dinner table for them.

How can you possibly know that? The death and destruction caused by the lockdowns is going to continue to reverberate for years.

“There is only one problem with this narrative, which received wall-to-wall coverage on outrage-addled cable news shows and was pasted on the front pages of newspapers across the country: An independent investigation by the inspector general of the Interior Department has concluded it wasn’t true.” https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-photo-op-church-wasn-t-why-lafayette-square-was-ncna1270502 So…no, Wendy, not like that.