2020 Presidential Race

[luthervol]

One of the smarter approaches I have heard. Thank you sir.

Thanks. There is such a huge range of strongly held opinions that there is no answer that is going to be satisfactory to a large majority.

 

[luthervol]

What if a school system is on "block scheduling" and has state-mandated tests at the end of the semester? Would you test them before Christmas Break (they'd have fewer days to prepare than students who took the same class during the second semester), or would you test them after Break and test first semester classes then?

At that point, would you try to put your struggling students into classes with mandated tests during second semester?

Schools on block scheduling who tried to do required testing before/right after Christmas would struggle with your plan of a post-Labor Day start (which I like, by the way).

I would test after Christmas break (not ideal). I think most mandated testing will be eliminated except for AP tests at the end of the year.

 

[Rickyvol77]

I'm not a gun control guy, so don't just assume that about me.

I didn’t assume that about you. I think you’re a pretty reasonable guy

 

[Weezer]

I'm trying to adopt your everything is equal philosophy. All bad is equally bad. All good is equally good. All people are equally moral. All liars lie equally. All media is equally biased. All PF posters are equally insane.

but I just can't.

It's not about all things are equal. Bad is still bad no matter the degree. It doesn't become good because it's a lesser degree of bad. Wrong is still wrong, and it doesn't become right, or acceptable, because you deem it less wrong.

 

[Weezer]

They do seem to go hand in hand.

Truth could bite you on the ass and you still wouldn't recognize it.

 

[luthervol]

It's not about all things are equal. Bad is still bad no matter the degree. It doesn't become good because it's a lesser degree of bad. Wrong is still wrong, and it doesn't become right, or acceptable, because you deem it less wrong.

Never said it did.
But less bad is better than more bad.

 

[Weezer]

Never said it did.
But less bad is better than more bad.

Accepting bad because you consider it "less bad" is a horrible philosophy. It's accepting the problem without attempting to change. Until we learn to demand good, we're going to be stuck in the same cycles of disappointment.

 

[MG1968]

Never said it did.
But less bad is better than more bad.

Nazism killed roughly 9 million. Communism, both Russian and Chinese, killed at least 30 million.

By your standards, you would vote for Nazism because it’s “less bad”.

 

[BowlBrother85]

Like 98% of the country he has no idea who she is!

You honestly believe that President Donald Trump doesn't know who all 100 sitting United States Senators are? I don't think you are correct, but if you are, that would not be a very good thing for him. LOL. Trump is ignorant, but he is not THAT ignorant. Trump does know who she is, and he is aware that Sen. Duckworth has referred to him as "Cadet Bone Spurs". Trump just doesn't have a comeback for it, and he understands that he can't win a petty, public feud with her.

 

[CagleMtnVol]

You honestly believe that President Donald Trump doesn't know who all 100 sitting United States Senators are? I don't think you are correct, but if you are, that would not be a very good thing for him. LOL. Trump is ignorant, but he is not THAT ignorant. Trump does know who she is, and he is aware that Sen. Duckworth has referred to him as "Cadet Bone Spurs". Trump just doesn't have a comeback for it, and he understands that he can't win a petty, public feud with her.

You take everything so seriously.

 

[NurseGoodVol]

Start with Maxine. That could fill quite a few pages. But be prepared to be called "racist" by KTK.

Is that the same Maxine, while on the finance Committee, asked the head of chase what he was doing about student loans? The.gov had already taken over student lending and she voted for it.

 

[hog88]

What happened to the idea of gun control creep that everyone was freaking out about a few years ago when Obama was in office? We throwing that out now?

The bump stock ban goes far beyond "gun control" it's a horrendous violation of property rights.

 

[luthervol]

Nazism killed roughly 9 million. Communism, both Russian and Chinese, killed at least 30 million.

By your standards, you would vote for Nazism because it’s “less bad”.

If there were only two options; one that killed 30 million and one that killed 9 million; my stance would be that the one that kills nine million is the less horrible choice. As bad as it is, you will save 21 million lives by defeating the worst option.

By your logic (and Weezer's) you would say they are equally bad results so it doesn't matter if 30 million die as opposed to limiting the deaths to 9 million.

I think the one thing the three of have in common is that we recognize that neither option in our preference and we wish we had better options.

 

[LouderVol]

Some of y’all think way to highly of Harris. She’s not the politician that the media and her supporters have made her out to be.

Neither is Biden or Trump. Yet here we are.

 

[volfanhill]

This what happens when you let a child take over your political party


It's 1980 in reverse

 

[LouderVol]

If there were only two options; one that killed 30 million and one that killed 9 million; my stance would be that the one that kills nine million is the less horrible choice. As bad as it is, you will save 21 million lives by defeating the worst option.

By your logic (and Weezer's) you would say they are equally bad results so it doesn't matter if 30 million die as opposed to limiting the deaths to 9 million.

I think the one thing the three of have in common is that we recognize that neither option in our preference and we wish we had better options.

Or your realize this is America where we arent stuck with a binary choice and that you can always go the third route.

It's only the R and D establishment that has boiled politics down to two choices, not reality.

 

[tvolsfan]

Yeah, the attempt to paint the anti-Trumpers as a Russian ploy was a clear failure.

 

[MontyPython]

Twitter temporarily limits Donald Trump Jr.'s account

 

[BigOrangeD]

Twitter temporarily limits Donald Trump Jr.'s account

Of course. They're commies and against free speech like you.

 

[utvolpj]

Of course. They're commies and against free speech like you.

They have nothing to do with a right to free speech

 

[BigOrangeD]

They have nothing to do with a right to free speech

Sure they do. They are a huge platform and should allow it but they don't.

 

[utvolpj]

Sure they do. They are a huge platform and should allow it but they don't.

They aren't the govt so it's irrelevant

 

[BigOrangeD]

They aren't the govt so it's irrelevant

More speech is always better. Big platforms should allow for debate.

 

[utvolpj]

More speech is always better. Big platforms should allow for debate.

So you want to dictate how businesses should be run? How very conservative of you

 

[hog88]

More speech is always better. Big platforms should allow for debate.

They should but the .gov shouldn't be mandating it. Free enterprise.