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GW Hayduke

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  1. What are you talking about?
  2. People voting isn't a problem. The problem with voting is that folks listen to right wing talking points. High rates of mass shooting events and high rates of firearm deaths in the US is a problem.
  3. Not that it matters but per the US Census, he would be white. https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html
  4. This is root of most of our problems. Folks against solving problems in our society due to convenience.
  5. The “responsible gun owner” and “legally owned gun” tropes are weak minded attempts to avoid responsibility. It is at the heart of virtually every right-wing political position
  6. I recommend you turn on the news. There was a mass shooting earlier this week. And one today
  7. Lead prosecutor describing the charging situation against the insurrectionists.
  8. The House and Senate held hearings on that topic earlier this month. I don't think a singular reason was established for why they weren't prepared for the insurrectionists. Since then, the House and Senate have been tied up with fixing the economy. I understand there will be an independent commision in the House to look into that question. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/what-congressional-hearings-have-revealed-so-far-about-capitol-riot-failures/2570332/
  9. The New York Times obtained recordings of police communications from Jan 6 and synced it to video. It provides the perspective of frontline police and the supervisors immediately directing them. Worth a watch. Nine minutes in length. Hopefully, this will dispel some of the disinformation pushed immediately after the siege on twitter and shared here that tried to show police as complicit by video of protesters passing through inconsequential barricades. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007655234/weve-lost-the-line-radio-traffic-reveals-police-under-siege-at-capitol.html?playlistId=video/2020-Elections
  10. Since folks are pondering Tucker, here is an oldy but goody in case anyone hasn't seen
  11. I had a running list on my reddit account that I haven't' updated in a year or so. I would pop it out whenever some asks what is so bad with trump. lies: dude lies about virtually everything. It’s embarrassing. Potus should be a role model. profane behavior: it’s embarrassing and juvenile. We are a laughing stock on the world stage. kowtowing to Saudi Arabia and Russia: fuck that shit. What are his motives for this? 2 counts of conspiracy to violate election law: see the Cohen trial. Trump as individual 1 in paying off porn stars. Corruption isn’t cool. 10 counts of obstructing the investigation into Russian election interference: see part 2 of the mueller report. Corruption isn’t cool. the bribery/extortion scheme to obtain a personal political benefit from withholding military aid to an ally that is in open conflict with russia. his general disregard for the rule of law. politicizing the DOJ by stepping in and getting a lighter sentence for Roger Stone. his use of division, tribalism, and xenophobia in his politik: potus should bring the country together, not use division and fear for political gain. dude is a confessed sexual predator: that isn’t cool. giving daughter and son positions in the White House is unethical. his attacks on the fbi, DOJ, and intelligence community serve no one but trump and our adversaries, such as Russia. separating families and putting kids in cages: US loses the moral high ground from shit like that. supporting/pardoning war criminals: US loses the moral high ground and it disrupts the ability of our military to operate at its best. abandoning the Kurds: an ally. This weakens our world standing and ability to project power. What did trump personally receive in return for this? pushing conspiracy theories is dangerous: birtherism, vaccines and autism, Ukraine’s election interference, deep state, etc. trade wars: barriers to trade have historically led to military conflict. As a general rule, better and increased trade between parties leads to deescalation of tensions. tension with allies: allegiances with Canada, France, Australia, Germany, nato, etc. are good for America. Tension only benefits our adversaries, I.e., Russia. tax returns: what is he hiding? Who does his allegiances lie with? emoluments: he chose to not divest and is currently profiting from a range of domestic and foreign entities. Are these profits motivating any executive decisions? Corruption isn’t cool. tax cuts for wealthy and corporations: trading short term political gain for increased deficit and harm to future generations. Propping up our economy with deficits is poor governance. declaring manufactured emergencies to redirect funds for military families for a southern barriers that experts think is a waste. giving legitimacy to the leader of North Korea.
  12. I still see some issues though. The exhortation would be “give em hell boys and defeat the union so we can keep our slaves.” We don’t know what Sinclair knew about Prather’s fondness for the phrase and the confederacy but it wouldn’t be a stretch for Sinclair to have heard some version of the Lee/Gregg story.
  13. That’s fair but I don’t really see much of a difference between citing Gregg or Lee. They are both confederate generals. Seemingly Taylor in 30s misassigned statements by Gregg. But that error isn’t really consequential to the thrust that the confederacy was intertwined with the origin story of the eyes. We could say that other folks used phrases similar to the eyes (like Washington), but Prather and Taylor we’re quoting confederate generals and not Washington. Prather was UT president at the time of his Lee/Greg speech and at the time of composition of the eyes song. I may be mistaken but I also believe the debut of the song was at an event for Prather (which also happened to be a minstrel performance likely in black face). I’m not convinced the connection is fabricated
  14. I recommend you take a look at page 11 of the report and note the discussion of Prather’s speech in November 1900. The quotes from the summary you provided do not appear to clearly line up with the contents of the report (page 11)
  15. What do you think I am not comprehending? Are you under the impression that the report establishes the confederacy, General Lee, and General Gregg played no role in the origin of the eyes? If so, you are misreading the report. There are two speeches by Prather noted on that page. One recorded in October 1899 and another recorded December 1900. The December 1900 speech clearly established that Prather (two years before the eyes was written) linked the eyes to the confederacy. He refers to both Lee and Gregg (confederate generals) in the speech, and the quotes Gregg as stating "the eyes of texas are upon you" and "the eyes of General Lee are upon you." Then in 30's, the Dean of Engineering again links the confederacy and Lee (leaving out Gregg) back to eyes. There is no reason to hide from any of that. Those are facts in the report.
  16. I recommend you read the report. Or at least the open letter at the beginning. A few paragraphs from the open letter composed by the chair of the committee.
  17. I skimmed this thread and it appears folks believe that Lee and the confederacy played no role in origin of the Eyes. Have folks read the report? I recommend you get to at least page 11. There is more. Folks should read page 11 of the report. https://utexas.app.box.com/s/5o2a1klri1htyhq3mziyxdjgxvegprjj
  18. Misinformation is inappropriate when it comes from Fox News and Steve Miller, just like misinformation is inappropriate when it comes from AOC.
  19. We need more maturity from our elected Democratic representatives when their twitter team decides to "poke and speak up." AOC should never be parroting the same talking points as Fox News, fakebusiness, and Steve Miller. I get that folks want to find vague excuses for it but it shouldn't be acceptable.
  20. We need our Democratic representatives to be more responsible on twitter. Has AOC clarified or retracted her tweet?
  21. I wasn’t thinking about federal oversight. I was thinking about the deregulated marketplace that occurred 1999 or 2002 or whenever and how that led to the problems we are having
  22. Anyone have a link, source or brief analysis on how texas’ deregulation of our electric utility has led to this fiasco? Trying to keep a fire going so can’t do much research now
  23. I get it. You are the slow guy on the board. The GND and her tax policies are policies. Policies aren’t the same as method of politik. That’s been stated several times. I typed that slow for you. She has sound policies that mostly align with Dem platform, but that isn’t relevant to anything I was talking about.
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