Was watching the local news here, on the NBC affiliate, if I am not mistaken. They had a nice piece on Trump looking to defund universities that indoctrinate students into leftism.

Well, to give the 'Democrat' side of the argument they had on some Lefty whose name I have forgotten. Something - Griffin or Griffith.

The reason I forgot his name is that his comments had me howling with laughter. I couldn't stop guffawing.

See, the news story showed that people with college degrees vote in higher percentages than those without, and the college grads skew heavily to the left, by about 20% (I forgot the exact statistic because of the hilarity that ensued.)

What was so funny? The Lefty was defending left-leaning voters by claiming they were using critical thinking skills! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

His example was that the muslim travel ban failed under the critical thinking of college grads! OMG, how obtuse can you get???

Failure on 2 counts. For one, anyone who debates leftists knows from experience that very few of them demonstrate any critical thinking skills.

Second count: Islam is the only religion exporting terrorism to other countries!!! Hello? Anyone home in the skull of Mr. Griffin or Griffith or whatever his name was? The Muslim travel ban is your example???

LOLOLOLOL! Are you trying to refute your own argument??? If you are, then I say "well done!"

What percentage of "libs" are open-minded and willing to learn?>

I've had several family members who are libs contact me recently. People who would normally roll their eyes are now interested in what I say.

It appears rioting/looting/no police has caught their attention.

Many libs actually live as conservatives, but vote Democrat because that's what they think they are, or that is what is easy.

They have never felt abuse, and have voted the black man into their solutions.

Like the frog in the pot, the question will be, what happens when the heat turns up on them?

That's an important point.

It's easy for them to pay lip service to "lib" ideals because so far they are not directly affected by leftist policies.

They think they are noble in taking the knee, or marching with BLM, or virtue signalling on twitter or facebook or on the Rogoff forum.

When the leftists whom they vote into power finally take control, they will feel the full effects of leftist ideology, but by then it will be too late.

More and more good people are being silenced, on youtube, on twitter, on facebook, on google, on chessgames, because the "libs" don't want the truth to be told.

Yes the libs don’t fight back. They aren’t capable.>

I don't think it has anything to do with "capable."

Liberalism is a lie.

Yes, that's why I like discussing issues with people such as yourself and the other posters on BP's forum.

You're all interesting.

There's a couple of "libs" on Rogoff who I don't mind having discussions with, but try having a discussion with Larry the Idiot, or Nozzle the Parrot, or Perf the Poker Player.

It's like talking to a retard.

Seriously, all you get is "anti-Christ" or "kindergarten kids" or "go to New York" or some such drivel.

What a waste of time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LND...

That's incredible!

So it's confirmed that it was an accident?

Not terrorism?

Lebanon is a failed state.

Totally disorganised.

According to the latest I've heard so far, it's not clear yet what happened. Some reports say that angry, hate filled, bearded, crazed terrorist Muzzies were working on making a bomb there and it went off accidentally. There's no telling just yet.

Nasrallah said that the port in Haifa has a storage house just like this one full of the same explosive material, only much more of it, and he calls it his nuke in Israel, because detonating that would produce the same kind of destruction as a nuke and in Haifa, estimates are that up to 80,000 Israelis would die. Hezbollah has studied the port in Haifa for a long time and they know how much explosive material is located there. They know everything about it.

Who knows how the Muzzies are going to react to this. Already the information minister resigned amid ongoing protests. The people are furious about this catastrophic explosion.

<‘Resign or hang’: Protesters in devastated Beirut turn fury on Lebanon’s leaders>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...

<Lebanon's information minister resigns amid violent protests after deadly Beirut blast>

https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/08...

With Iran increasing pressure on Israel with at least some support from Russia, Turkey and China, it's become even more unstable in the ME than usual, and the stakes are higher than ever. Israel is fixing to annex Judea and Samaria even as relations with Jordan descend to lows not seen since the 80s. With Iran using proxies to surround Israel (Hezbollah has over 150,000 rockets now and many if not most are sophisticated smart rockets that can actually hit targets, unlike the war in 2006), including exploiting the unstable situation in Syria under Russian cover, the Israelis have openly stated that they expect a full scale war at any time.

So when blasts like this happen and Nasrallah starts to talk about the port of Haifa, anything could happen. With Russia, Turkey, China and Iran involved, this could very easily spin out into a truly global conflict.

All Islamic states are basically failed states. Muzzies had the land of Israel for centuries and it was a giant dust bowl with no agriculture, no value, no centers of learning, no scientific progress, no medical progress, no economic progress. Nothing. Just a big Muzzie sheet hole.

Jews move in and in a few decades it's a first world country.

Other people wonder why Islamic countries haven't developed despite the fact that they are sitting on huge oil reserves and making tons of money.

<Why Have The Islamic Countries Failed To Develop Even With Resources Like Oil, While Countries With No Resources Like Switzerland Have Flourished?>

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/...

That and the fact that they know they can't compete here. They know that they will be held to a high standard on this page and won't be able to get away with ridicule, "your mother", "white hood anti-christ" and all that sort of nonsense.

But that's all they have, so they don't dare show their faces in here.

Remember, these are the libs who don't fight back anymore. They've given up. Shamed. Made meek.

I thought they settled their long-running civil war with a compromise regarding the various positions in government?

<Lebanon is a parliamentary democracy that includes confessionalism, in which high-ranking offices are reserved for members of specific religious groups. The President, for example, has to be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, the Speaker of the Parliament a Shi’a Muslim, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Deputy Speaker of Parliament Eastern Orthodox. This system is intended to deter sectarian conflict and to represent fairly the demographic distribution of the 18 recognized religious groups in government.>

Anyway, it doesn't seem to be working out too well.

Yes, there are Christians there, but the Muzzies are running the show and have great influence on the very corrupt government.

<I mean, if they don't even have the combined common sense to keep explosive material separate from a stockpile of fireworks in the middle of a large city, then what hope is there that they can maintain a functioning modern nation?>

Israel too should move their explosives from the Haifa port to a rural area.

Those Muzzies have been bloodthirsty hate mongers since ancient times. Nothing has changed. Before they were Muzzies, they were pagans who burned their children alive to Molech.

Would Trump support this?

<it seems that Muzzie countries do not enjoy God's blessings. Israel certainly seems to, but the Muzzie countries don't.>

I can understand why Muzzie countries don't enjoy God's blessings, but why would Israel?

<With Russia, Turkey, China and Iran involved, this could very easily spin out into a truly global conflict>

The Middle East is a hell-hole which will drag us all into WWIII, but I don't see why China would be particularly interested in the ME.

Would Trump support this?>

Trump's peace plan included giving Israel 30% of the region, and Trump supported Israel's plan to annex Judea and Samaria, but he has pushback coming from his son in law Jared Kushner, who drafted the peace plan in the first place. He thinks the annexation could stall the peace plan, which is ridiculous anyway, because the Muzzies already said they will not accept the peace plan. The surrounding Muzzie countries have it in their charters that their main goal is the obliteration of the state of Israel. Period.

COVID-19 stalled the annexation, but maybe there's more to it than that, with some pressure coming from the White House to wait a moment.

<The Middle East is a hell-hole which will drag us all into WWIII, but I don't see why China would be particularly interested in the ME.>

China has taken a much more aggressive role in the ME as of late.

<China’s growing role in the Middle East>

https://www.mei.edu/publications/ch...

<I can understand why Muzzie countries don't enjoy God's blessings, but why would Israel?>

Any peace plan is a waste of time if the Jews will not accept Jesus Christ as King of Israel.

That is the fundamental problem in the Middle East. Everything else is just peripheral.

If the Jews will accept Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah and the King of Israel, then God's plan will come to fruition.

The state of Israel will come into being according to the borders set out in the Old Testament and this will lead to the conversion of the Mohammedans.

That's the only peace plan that will work!

I happened to be over at Nikolai Vladivostok's blog, Soviet Men, reading his most recent article yesterday. Here's the link

https://sovietmen.wordpress.com/202...

And he linked to an article at a website I'd never heard of, New Discourses.

It is about why the Woke won't debate you:

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/w...

Hi <OCF>, I think you could have just stopped after "cat".

<La Croix, 11 Dixie Chicks CD's with "Dixie" taped over, 1 Lady Antebellum CD with "ntebellum" taped over, 147 Taylor Swift CD's, Greek Yogurt, unground coffee beans, reusable grocery bags, 7 different recycling bins.>

I beg to differ about "Greek Yogurt"....

I thought that the most salient point was this:

<<<<Satanism offers a minimum ethical structure and trusts individuals enough to figure the rest out for themselves...>>> LaVey wrote.>

Yes, Anton LaVey was quite insightful in this regard - this sounds just like a description of the Rogoff Liberals!

He went on to say:

<There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!>

I addressed this to some degree here in this forum in 2017. You may find this post interesting in light of what you shared above.

Big Pawn chessforum (kibitz #2326)

In another post, addressed to you as it happens, I was sounding the alarm on the influence of postmodernist thought underpinning the left today.

<Big Pawn: <tga>, are you aware of the role that postmodernism, the philosophical school, plays in this entire left wing bolshevik leftifa revolution?>

Let those with a sound mind understand.>

Kenneth S Rogoff (kibitz #340001)

All of these posts of mine from a few years ago foreshadowed the current philosophical-political conversations that are starting to happen now.

Let the Elite Posters see that this is the forum you need to visit if you want real insight into what's happening today.

You're not going to find high level posting over at <NOZZLE'S PLAYPEN>, with is the Other Page.