The Goat Pen

Many Indians weren’t given citizenship until 1924, you dumb fuck. They were forced to move to reservations at the tip of a bayonet.

Hawaii was a unified nation and internationally recognized. American businessmen overthrew the government, and we annexed the islands a few years later.

You are incredibly stupid

You're being nice.

These are good

The one I posted goes to Lincoln...

You can tell you went to UNC.

now you're getting it

if you just be mad when the dems do that stuff

Oceana has always known that the plague came from a lab leak in Eastasia.

Look at ol' country bumpkin John Kennedy calling himself a "proud deplorable," while sassing the "cultured, cosmopolitan, goat's milk latte drinkin', avocado toast eatin' insiders elite" of Washington. Yep, he's really a man of the people, probably grew up in a trailer and gleaned sweet potatoes so his fambly would have food on the table. Oh wait, Kennedy graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt, got a law degree from UVa, and then another degree from Oxford, and I don't mean Oxford Mississippi, but the real Oxford in England. Oh yeah, and he used to be a deomcrat. Bullshit starts at the 1:16 mark...

Deep State at work...

FBI agents undermined Russia investigation, downplayed Jan. 6, tried to block the Mar-a-Lago search

There has always been an element within the FBI that has gone out of its way to protect Donald Trump. In the run-up to the 2016 election, as The New York Times was devoting every single column of the front page to the “scandal” of Hillary Clinton’s email server, a story about Trump’s connections between the Trump campaign and Russian agents was consigned to a brief account on an inside page, in part because FBI sources informed the NYT that there was nothing to the story. (Note that The New York Times was well aware that an investigation into Trump’s connections to Russia was underway, but chose not to run the story until well after the election.)

In January, Charles McGonigal, the former chief of counterintelligence at the FBI, was charged with money laundering for a Russian oligarch. McGonigal worked directly with oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who was also a major part of the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia in 2016, and the source of many of the lies about Joe Biden and Ukraine that Rudy Giuliani tried to push in the 2020 election cycle. (Lies that The New York Times published unchallenged.)

In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, top officials at the FBI were warned that “a sizable percentage of the employee population felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol.” They were also warned that the agency might have difficulty investigating those involved on Jan. 6 because many agents believed that going after the criminals who stormed the Capitol was just “political correctness.”

The FBI is broken. It remains broken. The latest evidence comes from a Washington Post report that FBI agents not only tried to block the search of Mar-a-Lago for the classified documents that the DOJ knows Trump was hiding, but they also tried to stop the investigation entirely at a point when Trump was still holding boxes of secret information.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3 ... eeds-to-go

Burn it to the ground.

I agree

Won't happen but still. Anyone really still think the Republican party isn't about pure unadulterated fascism?

MAGA!

This should end well.

No Trump or Biden talk below. Read at your peril.

Now that I am "retired" I have a new occupation (so to speak.) In that new occupation, I travel all the time. And in travelling, I meet new people every day. And in meeting new people every day, I get to talk about current events with different people and get their take on things, get an outlook that is very new to me but may be common place to others. One such conversation happened to me today about the war in Ukraine.

I was chatting with a Russian national who has recently immigrated here to the United States. We started casually talking about the war in Ukraine and I wanted to get her take on it. I figured she would be angry with Russia (more specifically, Putin) for what was happening. She was not. She had an entirely different take, one that I had never considered. She said (and I quote) "we are Eastern Orthodox Christians in Russia." I asked what is that supposed to mean and she said "well, it means that we take Christ very seriously and we are very angry with the West in turning its back on Christ." And I dug deeper and asked why Russians are so angry with the West. She said (and I want to separate this part because it is very important)

Russian National wrote:We are going to war with Ukraine because the un-Christian West is starting to have a major influence over that country that borders us. We don't want your hysterical, secular thinking anywhere near Russia. You people that live here, you don't even know what genders your children are. You tolerate hysteria and insanity. You are un-Christian.

I followed up with a question as to why she even bothered to leave and come here and she said that she married an American man and she always wanted to live in the United States. I don't think love factored into the decision at all. I think it was all just money and geography. But her points got me thinking. We are supremely fucked up right now when we tolerate letting out children chop parts off their own bodies because they don't know what genders they are. We should be SHAMING such horrible behavior. But we don't.