Florida State Seminoles

[Tree]

Stare any ladies down today?

[Tree]

Funny thing is Kimmel isn't even that interesting. I half wish Trump had succeeded in cancelling him.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... int-disney

[Jungle Rat]

Yeah. He needs to get off the Trump train. It's worn out. The world knows he's a clown. I'll keep doing it in here though. Gotta keep my promise to to y'all.

[Jungle Rat]

And he still lost!

[DooKSucks]

Last time we started building an empire, we controlled the Philippines. Look how that turned out for us? Our troops who were garrisoned there protecting our "empire" starved to death on the Bataan death march.

Tree, I know you are just a kid, but we don't "do" the empire schtick. If you can't figure that out, maybe you should never vote?

The depth and width of your ignorance knows no bounds.

[innocentbystander]

DS, I am trying to educate a young man who needs to be corrected.

You, I have given up on correcting you. Your willingness to ruin your exceptional education by doing that infernal profession is proof positive to me that you do not have a soul.

[Jungle Rat]

[aTm]

And here, I thought it was just something that sounded good that Trump stole from Reagan because he's too dumb/lazy to actually make something up himself...

[aTm]

It's also John Kerry-esque "Let America be like America Again" or whatever one of his deals was.

[Jungle Rat]

Trump would never!

[hedge]

"Tree, I know you are just a kid, but we don't "do" the empire schtick."

I suspect most American Indians would disagree with that assessment. Many Hawaiians too. And Mexico certainly wasn't happy about having to give up Texas and most of California to a non-empire building nation...

[hedge]

[DooKSucks]

DS, I am trying to educate a young man who needs to be corrected.

You, I have given up on correcting you. Your willingness to ruin your exceptional education by doing that infernal profession is proof positive to me that you do not have a soul.

No. You're just an idiot.

[Jungle Rat]

Works for me.

[sardis]

If you go by demographics, it probably is the same today.

[innocentbystander]

Works for me.

We should just "buy" Mexico, and get it over with.

[innocentbystander]

"Tree, I know you are just a kid, but we don't "do" the empire schtick."

I suspect most American Indians would disagree with that assessment. Many Hawaiians too. And Mexico certainly wasn't happy about having to give up Texas and most of California to a non-empire building nation...

Did we "tax" the American Indian as a subject of our empire? Or did we give them citizenship and let them build casinos (tax free) on land we "reserved" for their nation, turning many of them into multi-millionaires? You think the Pequots of Connecticut look at Foxwoods and hate on all this US-Empire crap?

As far as Hawaii goes, is that now a state? Are the native Hawaiians US citizens? Did we not just elect one of their own to be PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for two consecutive terms? Or do we treat the natives like peasant people?

I think we need to sit down and really hammer out what the word "empire" means with respect to nation states. The United Kingdom had an empire (and they were proud of it) and the people who were subjects in that empire were better off staying in it. They no longer have that empire and the world is worse off for it. The USA? We never had an empire in any meaningful sense.

[Jungle Rat]

We imposed our will on the Injuns & Don Hos like I do your daughters.

[hedge]

"The USA? We never had an empire in any meaningful sense."

We are the modern heirs to the Roman empire...

[innocentbystander]

The Roman Empire was all "decline." It just took them 500 years (or so) to waste away.

The Republic of Rome on the other hand....