Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI

[Starlight]

Woah! Do you have fever with those fits?

Do you mean... Why am I bored today and wasting time posting on TWeb? Or why hasn't my contempt for US conservatives lessened over the past 6 months of watching one of the most incompetent administrations in the history of the world bumble its way from idiocy to foolishness and US Republicans continue to cheerlead for it?

[One Bad Pig]

Different studies.

As I said before, HDI not my favorite metric.

Nah, you'd just make false statements continually, but not for my benefit.

It would help if you could actually show that the statements were false instead of screaming that they were and casting wild aspersions.

[One Bad Pig]

Do you mean... Why am I bored today and wasting time posting on TWeb? Or why hasn't my contempt for US conservatives lessened over the past 6 months of watching one of the most incompetent administrations in the history of the world bumble its way from idiocy to foolishness and US Republicans continue to cheerlead for it?

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

Yes, the Republicans are so good at cheerleading for Trump that they've managed to pass every one of his proposals.

[Tassman]

Er, so instead of answering the question as to how the HDI criteria of life expectancy, gdp per capita, and average education level, are "socialism" as you bizarrely claimed...

Of course, for BtC, to label something "socialist" automatically equates it with all things evil and warrants no further discussion.

I was actually responding to psstein's erroneous claim that "US liberals are dedicated to pursuing policies and ideas that have failed almost everywhere else". They have not failed "everywhere else" at all. Quite the contrary. The nations with a more equitable distribution of wealth, universal health care (which is everywhere except in the US) and accessible education for all, tend to rank among the most successful nations on earth in terms of average life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators. The US ranks well down that list. It is the unbridled capitalism of the US that has failed the people, not the pursuing of liberal policies and ideas

[Starlight]

Of course, for BtC, to label something "socialist" automatically equates it with all things evil and warrants no further discussion.

I was actually responding to psstein's erroneous claim that "US liberals are dedicated to pursuing policies and ideas that have failed almost everywhere else". They have not failed "everywhere else" at all. Quite the contrary. The nations with a more equitable distribution of wealth, universal health care (which is everywhere except in the US) and accessible education for all, tend to rank among the most successful nations on earth in terms of average life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators. The US ranks well down that list. It is the unbridled capitalism of the US that has failed the people, not the pursuing of liberal policies and ideas

Yeah psstein's claim was insane.

It amuses me how people like Bill dismiss all the successful nations in the modern world as "socialist", and yet seem to believe that we know "socialism" is a failure because of the USSR...

[Sparko]

Yeah, I know what you said Sparko. But you're only saying it because he agrees with you. You think he's unbiased because he agrees with you. Despite his being a liberal, you trust him enough to take him seriously because he agrees with you. He'd be one of the few who you'd listen to if he told you Trump was in trouble, because he's telling you that Trump is not in trouble. Hilarious!

Your powers of mind reading are terrible.

Not everyone just believes people that tell them what they want to hear like you do.

[Bill the Cat]

Yeah psstein's claim was insane.

It amuses me how people like Bill dismiss all the successful nations in the modern world as "socialist", and yet seem to believe that we know "socialism" is a failure because of the USSR...

So much for you leaving...

[JimL]

Your powers of mind reading are terrible.

Not everyone just believes people that tell them what they want to hear like you do.

No, not everyone does, but you certainly do, at least in this case. Dershowitz is being a complete fraud here if he thinks the President is a king and not answerable to the law. It's ludicrous, but you trust him and think him unbiased because he's saying what you want to hear, you like the fact that he's defending your guy with that garbage. I'll bet you'd be praising him thusly as well if he were saying the same about Obama, right?

[Sparko]

No, not everyone does, but you certainly do, at least in this case. Dershowitz is being a complete fraud here if he thinks the President is a king and not answerable to the law. It's ludicrous, but you trust him and think him unbiased because he's saying what you want to hear, you like the fact that he's defending your guy with that garbage. I'll bet you'd be praising him thusly as well if he were saying the same about Obama, right?

Jimmy boy, you are the very last person on Earth to be accusing anyone else of believing people just because they agree with you and vice versa. I hope nobody is drinking milk or eating while reading your post.

Maybe it is simply a case of you projecting your motivations onto others. But it is very amusing.

[Cow Poke]

Jimmy boy, you are the very last person on Earth to be accusing anyone else of believing people just because they agree with you and vice versa. I hope nobody is drinking milk or eating while reading your post.

Maybe it is simply a case of you projecting your motivations onto others. But it is very amusing.

I don't think he has a clue how well he just described his own actions.

[Mountain Man]

Dershowitz is being a complete fraud here if he thinks the President is a king and not answerable to the law.

And when did Dershowitz say that? Let's have an exact quote with source.

[JimL]

Jimmy boy, you are the very last person on Earth to be accusing anyone else of believing people just because they agree with you and vice versa. I hope nobody is drinking milk or eating while reading your post.

Maybe it is simply a case of you projecting your motivations onto others. But it is very amusing.

No, what is amusing Sparko is your post, #165 where you go on to praise Dershowitz as an unbiased defender of King Trump. "Trump is above the law because he's the President!"

[Mountain Man]

No, what is amusing Sparko is your post, #165 where you go on to praise Dershowitz as an unbiased defender of King Trump. "Trump is above the law because he's the President!"

Here's post #165:

I forgot!

I do have to respect Dershowitz for being unbiased enough to tell it like it is without regard to likes, or dislikes or political view. He would be one of the few people I would take seriously if he said that Trump was in trouble.

It's the strangest thing, but I've read it multiple times, and I can't seem to find the phrase "Trump is above the law because he's the President!"

Maybe you could point it out for us? Thanks.

[Sparko]

Here's post #165:


It's the strangest thing, but I've read it multiple times, and I can't seem to find the phrase "Trump is above the law because he's the President!"

Maybe you could point it out for us? Thanks.

Jimmy has these magical glasses that show him what he wants to see. Or maybe some wacky weed.


He keeps accusing other people of his own faults. Like RumTum says, maybe he has a mirror for a monitor.

[One Bad Pig]

And when did Dershowitz say that? Let's have an exact quote with source.

You're expecting an awful lot. Jim seems to be allergic to providing sources - perhaps because they so often turn out to say something different than what he thinks they said.