Topic: D's & R's can collide here without serous pain being inflicted.

[Ken (OP)]

I've always loved this Lady, even more so now. 

[Ken (OP)]

"Real Time with Bill Maher"... he always has an interesting take on our political landscape!


New Rule: Sex Monster | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

[Ken (OP)]

Twitter is finally, FINALLY, starting to fack check the orange-dildo on all the lies that he continues to tweet! 

[Skhilled]

It's about time since he's about to start WW3!

https://thebulletin.org/2020/05/will-the-trump-administrations-accusations-doom-the-nuclear-test-ban-treaty

[Ken (OP)]

It's about time since he's about to start WW3!

https://thebulletin.org/2020/05/will-the-trump-administrations-accusations-doom-the-nuclear-test-ban-treaty

This part of the article is scary:

Although US accusations are unlikely to be true, they could give a convenient pretext to officials who want to withdraw the US signature from the treaty, allowing the United States to resume its own nuclear testing. In fact, that may be the entire point.

This looks like the typical political double-speak as they try to engineer an outcome that they already have in mind!   

[Ken (OP)]

Let's talk about the Trump, Twitter, and the First Amendment....

[Skhilled]

It's about time since he's about to start WW3!

https://thebulletin.org/2020/05/will-the-trump-administrations-accusations-doom-the-nuclear-test-ban-treaty

This part of the article is scary:

Although US accusations are unlikely to be true, they could give a convenient pretext to officials who want to withdraw the US signature from the treaty, allowing the United States to resume its own nuclear testing. In fact, that may be the entire point.

This looks like the typical political double-speak as they try to engineer an outcome that they already have in mind!   

I'm not surprised he is doing this...sooner or later we'll be a 3d world country!

[Skhilled]

Let's talk about the Trump, Twitter, and the First Amendment....

Great speech, as usual!

[Ken (OP)]

[Ken (OP)]

[Skhilled]

I'm surprised that a rapper spoke so eloquently! Well, said!

[Ken (OP)]

Following up on the Killer Mike speech:

I originally saw this video on Twitter and on reading more I found the commentary by @EricaJoy where she suggests that the Black community is hearing a message that differs from what others may be hearing.

... one of her tweets:

dear white people,

google killer mike and search for how black people are responding to his speech before you amplify him and it.

BTW... one of her followers is Barack Obama, and now so am I.

[Skhilled]

The difference in hearing is whether you care or not and what you care about.

[Ken (OP)]

The difference in hearing is whether you care or not and what you care about.

True that.
Kay and I were just talking about the issue and both agree that a 'regular' white person cannot possibly have a true understanding of the way it feels to be Black in this country. We both had Black spouses in our first marriages and we were both married for a good long while, in my case, it was 22 years, and so we had long term exposure to some(and only some!) of the same treatment that any Black person would suffer... but, Kay and I both agree that even after all that time in those marriages and all the Black and brown people that we are related to, including our own children, we still cannot truly understand what it means to be a Black American.
Why? Because for all of our time in the Black culture and in our Black families the fact is that the public at large still sees us as 'white', so we've not had the experience of being Black in America for every minute and every day of our entire life.

[Skhilled]

It is a daily challenge. Everywhere you go you are treated differently. Go into a store and security follows you (is why I no longer shop at Walmart nor Sam's Club with the thousands of dollars I've spent there), less pay, murdered /harassed by the police, etc. and a lot more. But we are used to it and mostly shrug it off. This is why we are not running scared of Covid-19 and allowing it to take over our lives. We've got bigger fish to fry.

People are running scared of it when everyday of your lives you can be killed by something else but don't bother to think about it. Walk across the street and get hit by a car. A driver in a car driving in the opposite direction is texting or falls asleep at the wheel and crashes into your car. Drive-by shootings, thieves, drug users and dealers, people who can't take life anymore and decide to take others with them...but you don't think about those things everyday nor do anything to actively protect yourself nor your family from them.

I've been shot at more times than I can remember, beat with sticks, bats, etc. and have been stabbed up and left for dead...bring it on! What doesn't kill you makes you stronger! But they call us "The Inferior Race!"