Current or modern politics in the United States

[Mad Koala Bear]

I get my regular updates on the abhorrent behaviour of much of the GOP and the Tea baggers of the Right from crooksandliars.com Nowhere better to see the take over of a once quite noble political party (the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower), by an extreme faction that has no respect for democracy nor decency.

[Mad Koala Bear]

As a relatively well informed UK citizen I scored 82%. I'm sure that had I been taking it for real I would have read up a bit more and probably have scored a lot better.

[Mal Hombre]

I clicked on the link and it showed the answers,I scored 100%

[Mad Koala Bear]

Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

I clicked on the link and it showed the answers,I scored 100%

I noticed that and went straight to the home page instead to find the quiz. I didn't look at the answers, honest, or I would have scored better.

[palo5]

I got 86/96 - what does that make me?

[blueballsdc]

Originally Posted by palo5

I got 86/96 - what does that make me?

It means you would probably make a better American Citizen than 90% of the Tea Party.

Come to the dark side comrade!

[palo5]

Originally Posted by blueballsdc

It means you would probably make a better American Citizen than 90% of the Tea Party...

You mean 10% would be better? Oh man!

On the other hand, some Americans are well-educated and have good values

Some time ago American students were asked where they thought this sentence came from:

"to each according to his needs from each according to his abilities"

... and many thought it came from the Bill of Rights

So there's hope

[CallMeMaybe]

Remember that nut bar that is trying to.impeach Joe Biden, well she is running for the hills backtracking with everything she stands for. Someone should just hold her under the swamp water for 5 seconds longer than she can hold her breath... and that video that just surfaced of her harassing a Parkland victim should spell her end.

How do repugs punish her, they don't, they put her on the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Marjorie Taylor Greene removes social media posts amid scrutiny of past controversial comments

By*Em Steck*and*Andrew Kaczynski, CNN

Updated 4:57 PM ET, Thu January 28, 2021

CNN)Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has removed dozens of Facebook posts from 2018 and 2019 in which she endorsed fringe conspiracy theories and repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians.

Searches of Greene's Facebook show the posts from*2018*and*2019*have been removed. Links saved by CNN's KFile during a review of hundreds of posts and comments from Greene's Facebook page are no longer available.

Greene is facing backlash for her conspiratorial social media posts after CNN reported she indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in Facebook comments and videos.

The freshman congresswoman from Georgia also deleted videos she posted on Facebook Live where she said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is "guilty of treason" and that she will "suffer death or she'll be in prison" for her "treason."

Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019 before running for Congress

CNN reached out to Greene's office for comment on the removed posts but did not receive a response.

Greene, who made the comments before running for Congress,*posted a statement on her Twitter account*on Tuesday in which she did not deny that she liked posts and replied to comments but claimed that many people have run her Facebook page.

"Over the years, I've had teams of people manage my pages. Many posts have been liked. Many posts have been shared. Some did not represent my views," she wrote.

A Facebook spokesman told CNN's KFile the posts were not removed by the company. Greene*previously had posts removed*for violating the company's community standards, the Facebook spokesman confirmed, in which Greene agreed with people who said the 2018 Parkland, Florida, shooting was a "false flag" operation. "False flag" refers to acts that are designed by perpetrators to be made to look like they were carried out by other individuals or groups.

In a*video that surfaced Wednesday, Greene is seen harassing Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg outside the Capitol. In the video from March 2019, she calls Hogg a "coward" and said he was "paid to do this," repeating a malicious lie that Hogg's activism was paid for by billionaire philanthropist and Democratic donor George Soros.*Survivors of the Parkland shooting and victims' families*have called for Greene to resign.

In a written statement to CNN, Greene said that the video was taken while she was in Washington, "going from office to office in the Senate to oppose the radical gun control agenda that David Hogg was pushing."

"In 11th grade, one of my fellow students took our school hostage with a gun he brought to our 'gun-free' school," Greene said. "I understand that fear firsthand and I will always work to protect our gun rights so that Americans can defend themselves and others against bad people intent to harm or kill them."

Greene announced earlier this week that she would serve on the House Committee on Education and Labor.

At a weekly press conference on Thursday, Pelosi harshly*criticized House Republican leaders*for assigning Greene to the committee.

"Assigning her to the Education Committee when she has mocked the killing of little children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when she has mocked the killing of teenagers in high school at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School -- what could they be thinking?" Pelosi asked. "Or is thinking too generous a word for what they might be doing? It's absolutely appalling, and I think the focus has to be on the Republican leadership of this House of Representatives for the disregard they have for the death of those children."

[movieman88]

Responding to Hoss - http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=5204

If you compare cultures and morals, you can not pick cherries, you have to view the whole picture. And if you do so, I d not see the First World countries having the cultural or moral high ground in general.

Our freedom, constitution (and the rights/morals enshrined by it) and the declaration of Independence give us the moral high ground. THAT is our overall culture not tiny little subcultures or current trends.

The Oklahoma bomber did

And he has nothing to do with America's culture and system of freedom. He does not represent America in anyway.

Let us just agree that terrorists are terrorists but not representatives of a "culture" of any kind.

Islamic terrorist DO represent Islam because they are fighting in it's name, for it's values and for the evil laws many of their nations enforce.

Outlaws of the Old West were glorified in another specific culture. How come that was never regarded as a problem?

They absolutely were looked down upon at the time. Most old west towns including Tombstone had incredibly harsh gun control. And there was social stigma against "gunmen", if you had more than 1 pistol you were instantly seen as trouble.

I don´t think people become criminals for the glory of it. It is poverty and desperation that drives them.

It's a mix of both. I am a artist, when I was a kid, me and another student were looking at each other's drawings. I thought his drawing was of a king & queen, I showed his drawing to my mom who was a teacher and she started flipping out and wouldn't tell me what the issue was. The drawing was of a pimp & prostitute, drawn by a kid in 6th freaking grade.
Rap/Gang banger culture absolutely teaches young children that pimps/dealers are cool/hip.

How come that coloured people are more likely to be poor?

In the past it was discrimination, modern day it's because of the crime and culture in their communities which stagnates development of said communities (which trump promised to help with in his second term) and (along with bad or handicapped parenting from a tragic lack of fathers) makes people raised in them less likely to succeed.

My mom worked for nearly 20 years at a nearly all black school and she would periodically come home crying in despair at what her students go through at home. She knew of one parent who explicitly told her daughter that she can just drop out of high school and clean houses like her. THAT is the kind of mindset some parents in these areas have. She witnessed with her own eyes a mother slapping her daughter in the parking lot not because the daughter got in trouble for fighting but because the daughter LOST the fight.

Do you believe coloured people have the same chance to rent an apartment as whites?

If they have the money, generally yes.

If coloured people move into your neighbourhood, the marked value of your house drops.

Because of the culture/lifestyle/behavior that potentially comes with them. I agree this is wrong, I am just explaining it.

[SanteeFats]

Originally Posted by blueballsdc

It means you would probably make a better American Citizen than 90% of the Tea Party.

So just how far to the left are you??