You didn't watch the presidential debate last night

@Comissar You publically chastised me for being smug and rude, but look at BP's post above. Sok has literally called a few of my recent comments "shitposts." He is the big fish in a tiny pond. The sad thing is, Lefties here have usually been more kind and tolerant than most that I have observed over the last handful of years. C'est la vie.

It is true that I need to communicate in a more neutral style. Very difficult standard to meet when the other side frequently and openly screams virtual insults, but I shall work to improve. I appreciate your last few posts. Thanks for not giving up on me.


A small and vocal minority constantly shared reasons why Trump had a legit shot to win the "white enchilada", starting in the summer/fall of 2015. Those voices continue to be twisted and/or ignored by the MSM. Thankfully, we carried the day big league on social media. We flanked the MSM, as it were. At this very early juncture, it appears that the MSM has NOT adapted to the new reality. Twitter is shutting down some "alt right" leaders, but they will just flow to the next platform. And if Twitter pushes too hard, it will go the way of the dodo. Freedom of speech will flourish.

I am not an expert on global climate change, and Trump is PEOTUS so it is no longer a top 3 political issue in America. Time will tell, as it always does.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

What global catastrophe? The fact that you ask that question shows that you're buying into the doomsday assumption. These same people were also predicting that solar flares occur once every hundred years or so strong enough to knock us back into the Stone Age. This sort of 'science' does not merit federal funding. And I would argue that a country that has citizens living in poverty and has trillions of dollars in debt does not have the 'wealth to save the planet'. That is where the anger is coming from.

If you really want to know what's going to kill us all it's an asteroid. If you want to help save the planet, buy a telescope and help look for it. The only reason the greenies aren't on board with this is because it doesn't help further their REAL agenda.

 

Global warming affects the oil industry. It's a geopolitical hot potato. Secondry motives abound on all sides.

And if there is an asteroid on course to hit the earth the probability is 100%. It's been hit before you know. And all those circles on the moon..... yeah. We aren't searching for them nearly enough. And of course the telescope suggestion was tongue in cheek (are you really that humorless or just pretend to be when it suits you?) There is no call to action for the masses, that's why the left isn't interested in it.

 

That's largely why I stopped posting on these forums, too many know it alls that turns out they know very little. Too many insults and little facts to back anything up, which is typically what liberals are best at.

 

He didn't know you were joking about the telescopes because you have a history of saying outrageous things without any evidence or understanding of the topic.

On asteroids:
Most asteroid craters on earth and on the moon are very, very old- from a time when there were a lot more asteroids in the solar system because planets had only formed relatively recently.
Any small asteroid is burnt up when it enters our atmosphere - asteroid impacts on the moon are more common and devastating because the moon has very little atmosphere.

Also, NASA is constantly monitoring the solar system for Near Earth Objects, finding 30 every day. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6664

They even set up a neat asteroid watch calendar. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/widget/index.html

Cool side note- NASA has a Planetary Defence Coordination Office. They got this.

I found all this with a few quick google searches. Your concern over asteroids is probably from watching too many disaster movies. "The left" (and the right) isn't interested in it because it's not a likely threat. Climate change is something that's actually happening, and we can take steps to prevent it, without leaving poor people to starve.

 

I love how you added a sweeping, general, baseless insult to liberals at the end. This is either extreme hypocrisy or advanced sarcasm.

 

They don't 'got this'. That near miss a few years ago caught us by surprise. We would have not been able to stop it. And if one is found today what is the plan to stop it? Just theories. You're far to complacent about it. Or maybe you're just a........

Asteroid Denier!

 

The God That Failed

By Sean Trende
November 16, 2016

Finally, to make the theory work, you have to find a way to explain the fact that, from top to bottom, the Republican Party is the strongest it has been since the 1920s. Whatever majority may be emerging, it does not look particularly Democratic right now.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/11/16/the_god_that_failed_132363.html

 

I haven't made a call to action. Unlike you guys I'm not selling anything. I just mention it to offer a more realistic alternative to those who seem to need a doomsday scenario to keep them up at night.

 

Trump says he is pro legal immigration.

 

His opinion is: Don't vote for the one you agree with, vote for the lesser evil.

That is painfully anti-democratic.

He also claims liberals would have put Trump into the white house, which may have some semblance of a similarity to something remotely reasonable, but is mostly idiotic. Trump voters put him there.

Also, Burn said Baskit was a reasonable and respectable person. Srsly, Burn? He isn't, he's a nut