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[Steve R.]

No. It was the party who decided that it was Hillary's "turn" to run for President because they cheated HER out if it in 2008 so that Obama could run instead. They wanted the black man instead of the white woman. Black trumps white in all cases of "equity".

Obama, after elbowing Hillary of the way in 2008, went on to assert that it was time for a woman to be president in 2016 as he was leaving office. If Obama actually believed in what he has said, he would have stepped aside in 2008 to support Hillary as the presidential candidate. Obama was not very chivalrous.

Obama library, begun with lofty DEI goals, now plagued by $40M racially charged suit, ballooning costs

Construction of former President Obama's long-awaited library and museum in Chicago began with ambitious plans for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) but is now plagued by huge cost overruns, delays and a $40 million racially charged lawsuit filed by a minority contractor.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Thales750]

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Mad?

I think Sad is a better term. Sad because it serves his racist agenda. The the real agenda being to ingratiate himself with all his most extreme worshipers. The ones that are brainwashed into thinking that American ultra-nationalism is somehow going to Make Us Great Again.

What part of renaming an international body of water into a fictional name, is creating greatness?

I've read a few hundred post from wacko MAGA nut cases, and they actually call people WOKE for not agreeing with the changing of the name.

We have come to a place where party politics led by a megalomaniac, is endangering our society. Anger is not the proper response, thinking people have a responsibility to continue to point out the lunacy, without the normal accompaniment of an emotional diatribe.

Logic and patience are what is needed now.

Obviously, I have both.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Actually, renaming it the Gulf of the Americas would have made more sense to me. Mount McKinley was renamed by Obama, and Fort Bragg was changed because people are running from our past, mainly the politically correct crowd.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

What part of renaming an international body of water into a fictional name, is creating greatness?

Perhaps because its original name was also fictional. And ALL of the nations that border on the western, southern, and northern shores of that gulf are counted in the North American continent. Why would it NOT be the Gulf of America?

 

[Thales750]

Perhaps because its original name was also fictional. And ALL of the nations that border on the western, southern, and northern shores of that gulf are counted in the North American continent. Why would it NOT be the Gulf of America?

Because the motivation behind it was Nazi like nationalism and catering to the hatred and contempt of his worshiping base. Personal Power is all he craves. His entire platform is about dividing the country.

Why wouldn't the Mediterranean be the Gulf of Europe?

The question should not be "why not change it", to rather why? And why now? The answer is simple... Extreme Fascism, pure and simple.

 

[Thales750]

Actually, renaming it the Gulf of the Americas would have made more sense to me. Mount McKinley was renamed by Obama, and Fort Bragg was changed because people are running from our past, mainly the politically correct crowd.

Two wrongs don't make a right. It's a pretty lame 7th grade excuse. One Conservatives love to repeat daily; having no real explanation for their leader's greed, or questionable actions, I imagine.

"Gulf of Americas" would be better for sure, but the real question is, why right now? The answer should be obvious.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

But I don't clearly see two wrongs. But from the continued tone of your answers, I WILL say two lefts don't make a right.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Two wrongs don't make a right. It's a pretty lame 7th grade excuse. One Conservatives love to repeat daily; having no real explanation for their leader's greed, or questionable actions, I imagine.

"Gulf of Americas" would be better for sure, but the real question is, why right now? The answer should be obvious.

Why tear down historical statues all over the south, why then? The answer should be obvious also.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The statue of Robert E Lee that adorned a really tall pedestal in "Lee's Circle" (one of the rare traffic circles in New Orleans) has been taken down. That didn't go well, but it happened. But then folks wanted to take down the statue of Andrew Jackson that is in the center of Jackson Square in front of St. Louis Basilica, a true and easily recognized landmark in the French Quarter. Yes, Jackson was a slave owner - but he was also a President of the USA AND a winning general during the Battle of New Orleans in 1814-1815, so he was a war hero before he was president. We lost statues of P. G. T. Beauregard and a couple of other Confederate generals from our parks but the Jackson statue stayed.

 

[AccessBlaster]

We need to preserve our history good and bad, otherwise we're just lying to ourselves.

 

[Steve R.]

The statue of Robert E Lee that adorned a really tall pedestal in "Lee's Circle" (one of the rare traffic circles in New Orleans) has been taken down. That didn't go well, but it happened. But then folks wanted to take down the statue of Andrew Jackson that is in the center of Jackson Square in front of St. Louis Basilica, a true and easily recognized landmark in the French Quarter. Yes, Jackson was a slave owner - but he was also a President of the USA AND a winning general during the Battle of New Orleans in 1814-1815, so he was a war hero before he was president. We lost statues of P. G. T. Beauregard and a couple of other Confederate generals from our parks but the Jackson statue stayed.

Under the Biden administration, we were essentially living in the rebirth of a Jacobin Revolution (circa 1790) where history was to be erased for the benefit of the new order. We even had our own rendition of the "Reign of Terror", the cancelling or people as a opposed to actually Guillotining them. I didn't ask Grok about the renaming of military bases, schools, parks and other places that were renamed to promote woke politics.

From Grok

Since 2016, several statues of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ulysses S. Grant have been removed across the U.S. Here's a breakdown based on reported incidents:

• Abraham Lincoln:
  • Portland, Oregon: A statue was toppled during protests in October 2020.
  • Boston, Massachusetts: A statue of Lincoln with a formerly enslaved man was removed in December 2020.
• Theodore Roosevelt:
  • Portland, Oregon: His statue was toppled during protests in October 2020.
  • New York City, New York: The American Museum of Natural History decided to remove a statue in June 2020.
• Ulysses S. Grant:
  • San Francisco, California: His statue was pulled down in June 2020.

Based on this information, at least five statues of these figures have been removed or toppled since 2016. However, this count might not be exhaustive as there could be other removals or topplings that did not receive widespread coverage or are not explicitly mentioned in the available sources.

 

[Steve R.]

As a follow-up to the renaming of stuff for political reasons.

White House Rips AP for 'Weaponizing Language' in Style Guide Decisions

The White House said it indefinitely barred the Associated Press from attending White House events because it weaponizes language through its style guide decisions.

www.breitbart.com

AP Refuses to Use 'Gulf of America' Despite Updating Other Place Names

The AP refuses to refer to the Gulf of America by its name, despite the publication conforming to the renaming of other geographical places.

www.breitbart.com

 

[Thales750]

'Embarrassing to be an American': Trump Administration Under Fire After Accidentally Firing Workers Overseeing Nation's Nuclear Power Then Scrambling to Rehire Them​

 

[The_Doc_Man]

'Embarrassing to be an American': Trump Administration Under Fire After Accidentally Firing Workers Overseeing Nation's Nuclear Power Then Scrambling to Rehire Them​

Then go somewhere else and renounce your USA citizenship.

 

[moke123]

'Embarrassing to be an American': Trump Administration Under Fire After Accidentally Firing Workers Overseeing Nation's Nuclear Power Then Scrambling to Rehire Them​

shoot first then ask questions later.

 

[moke123]

I think one of my favorites is musk alleging 150 year old's collecting Social security.

Does May 20, 1875 ring a bell with any of you Cobol people?

 

[AccessBlaster]

I think one of my favorites is musk alleging 150 year old's collecting Social security.

Does May 20, 1875 ring a bell with any of you Cobol people?

My favorite was when Biden and Myorkis were trying to convince half the country our borders were closed. That's going down as a classic.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I think one of my favorites is musk alleging 150 year old's collecting Social security.

Does May 20, 1875 ring a bell with any of you Cobol people?

Or Wednesday, November 17th, 1858 if you are an OpenVMS person.

But "standard" COBOL didn't originally have a DATE data type. The big Y2K flap was because COBOL dates were typically represented using 2-digit year numbers that would have "blown up" in the year 2000. Given that 1875 is before 1900, 1875 couldn't even be represented until after the Y2K mess was retrofitted to 4-digit years.

That date was the "Metre Convention" that created the international bureau of weights and measures (in Paris?) I've seen some speculation that the date was used in some particular COBOL implementations as an "impossible" (but semantically valid) date to represent something very old but you don't know the actual date. However, implementation dates by their very nature are not "official" within the language in question.

In Access, one might use 1/1/100 as such a date, since that is the earliest date that can be represented using the Microsoft date formatting routines. I use it in my genealogy database for someone's unknown birth date, and 12/31/9999 as a death date for people still living.

 

[AccessBlaster]

After Four Years of the Biden Puppet Presidency, ABC News Asks Who's Running the Trump Administration.

 

[Isaac]

Elon Musk’s DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it

Such security, much open.

www.theverge.com

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website

“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

www.huffpost.com

Can you provide the steps one can take to edit data on DOGE website? I couldn't readily find out how.
They do need to be careful about posting information.

Although when it comes to the subject of "Americans worried about Musk seeing taxpayer information like SSN, Name, etc" - I think that's a non-existent concern, made up by Democrat narrative-creators. Musk, the world's richest man, is not seeking to copy a list of a million names and sell it for $500 on the dark web.
I mean, Really. Nobody is dumb enough to think that, and plus, why is he any less deserving to see it than any random civil service employee who already has access to it? I certainly don't trust them MORE.