SoCal Deek

Sheeesh! Once again, reading is your friend. He said he wouldn’t do THOSE things because he wouldn’t have THOSE powers or authorities as President. Try and expand where you get your talking points.

And here’s where things cross the line. What is it about a so called Trans person causes them to expose themselves to children?. About a year ago this person would have been called a pedophile!

What are the logos at the top of the pyramid? Never heard or seen any of them on a bumper sticker. But I guess if you’re a modern fringe hate group the first thing you do is hire a graphics consulting team to come up with a logo. 😂

I didn’t say I bought it. I said he was asked the exact question that you were talking about, and that he answered it VERY specifically. But you wouldn’t know that because you just want to rant on and on about a candidate who literally just threw his hat in the ring. And so you’ll know that I’m not completely partisan, I’ve really enjoyed hearing from RFK Jr and what he’s had to say in this earliest part of the job interview.

He used the lever of power available to a Governor. When he was interviewed the other night he was asked if he would do the same as President and he said he wouldn’t have that lever available to him. I honestly don’t see what the fuss is about. He wants to keep some long held guardrails on the companies whose target market are the children of his State and he’s shown them that they aren’t going to get special tax privileges if they continue to veer outside of those guardrails. When a Democrat wins the office they can give this multibillion dollar corporation back their welfare.

Once again your reading comprehension skills are REALLY challenged. I didn’t say that was the target. I said that’s the tool he used to get the result he wanted. It’s done all the time in government. Sheeesh

SUNY, you can mock people without the overt sexual innuendo. Let’s try and raise the level of discussion.

Did he go after Disney? I guess so. How did he do it? He took away the corporate welfare exemptions that their primary competitors (Universal and Seaworld) haven’t likewise been getting for the last fifty years. I thought the Left hated corporate welfare. No?

You obviously put a lot of thought into it. Is there a chance that Gilliam is the odd man out of the RB room? Seems like with the key additions of Harris, Murray, and one might even say Kincaid that keeping a pass catching FB is a roster ‘luxury’.

Ya got me….on my street alone there are a number of people who didn’t go to college and they have garages worth more than SUNYs entire house!

What the? You didn’t honestly just say that did you? Geeez!

They do but the distinguishing characteristic of fascism is a government that squelches any form of dissenting narratives. THAT is what we have going on in the list of examples you cited…and I absolutely agree with you. That’s why I’m saying these posters wouldn’t know a communist from a clown show. What they think they’re interested in is a country with a common, government approved narrative. You know…the old “it takes a village” nonsense. The other trappings of communism are a far distant second to them. That’s if they even ever given it much thought at all.

Isn’t anyone interested in what these documents even are?

Yikes. So now I’m not sure you understand what communists are either. What you’re describing are fascists, not communists.

And you believe that they’re all communists? I highly doubt most of them when know a communist from an orangutan. 😉

It’s an interesting conversation for sure. You’ve obviously decided to lump them all together under the over arching ‘commie’ tag. I’m curious as to how you came to that generalized conclusion? I’m not sure many of these posters have any idea what they actually want in terms of a governing style or system. Many, if not all, appear literally stuck in a 1950s style partisan tribal feud. They simply know that if someone with a ‘R’ after their name says something then they must sign up to be against it. I’ve watched the pendulum swing wildly over the decades and honestly can’t believe how some of the classic party line positions have utterly flip flopped.

As I’ve often said….be the change you want to see in the world.

I’ll try that. But with all due respect, and it’s board-wide respectful discourse that I’m after, I cannot believe you can’t scroll through a few comments from those you don’t want to hear from.

Then might I respectfully suggest that every time you toss around the pejorative ‘commie’ label you’re actually falling into the same trap? Would anyone (even a lurker) want to hear what you have to say after that?

SUNY, you’re clearly an outdoors type. Yes, once again, California’s NATURAL areas are beautiful but that has nothing to do with the man-made environments which are crumbling and utterly filthy. It’s amazing how much it’s gone downhill since I moved away from WNY for grad school. And having just been to Florida a few months ago, there’s no comparison…at least in the man-made areas that I was in around the Orlando metro area.

Interesting Have you been to California in the last ten years? It’s almost unrecognizable. Sad.

NC….if you never talk with someone who disagrees with you then what’s the point of being on here? If I just want to talk to myself I can do that in my cell. 😂

Is there any chance at all that we can stop calling each other ‘cult members’ and ‘commies’? What’s the point of this sort of elementary school rhetoric?

California is NATURALLY beautiful but having lived here now for over forty years I can tell you that the MAN MADE ‘improvements’ are crumbling fast. The once well maintained freeway system is a graffiti and pot hole infested eyesore. The cities are completely overrun with homelessness. And the utility infrastructure is woefully inadequate. In short…to quote Irv…it’s a mess! And anyone who lives here knows it. I appreciate everyone’s responses in Florida but I’ve not met a single Californian who doesn’t come back from visiting there with a similar first impression.

So you’re saying it’s kind of like the Bills working the entire offseason to beat the Chiefs in the playoffs but then never even facing them. 😉