27th November 2019, 8:25 PM
I'm still waiting for it all to come full circle and for Fox News to decry the war on that most hallowed of eves, Halloween.
It honestly feels like Trump confused Thanksgiving with Columbus Day. I haven't heard anyone say the name "Thanksgiving" should be changed, but plenty of people are arguing that Columbus was a monster not deserving of the praise and outright myths concocted in his honor (on looking into it, the myth that Columbus proved the earth was round was concocted because decades ago the leadership in this country felt that the US needed a "mythology" so it could claim to have a "deep history". Pathetic really, because if they wanted a deep history, all they needed to do was talk to the native Americans.)
Buttigieg and Bloomberg are both attempting to buy their way into the race. It's insane we're even talking about either of them. Bloomberg's record is abysmal (he advised people to vote for W, his "stop and frisk" led to high incarceration, and he pushed for reduced taxes on the wealthy). Buttigieg is- on paper- not rich but when you actually look at what he owns, his equity, he's pretty dang rich. His policies are just a more palatable version of Republican policies.
Both of them should disappear, and both are proof that laws to prevent people from investing their personal money in their own political campaign are needed.
It honestly feels like Trump confused Thanksgiving with Columbus Day. I haven't heard anyone say the name "Thanksgiving" should be changed, but plenty of people are arguing that Columbus was a monster not deserving of the praise and outright myths concocted in his honor (on looking into it, the myth that Columbus proved the earth was round was concocted because decades ago the leadership in this country felt that the US needed a "mythology" so it could claim to have a "deep history". Pathetic really, because if they wanted a deep history, all they needed to do was talk to the native Americans.)
Buttigieg and Bloomberg are both attempting to buy their way into the race. It's insane we're even talking about either of them. Bloomberg's record is abysmal (he advised people to vote for W, his "stop and frisk" led to high incarceration, and he pushed for reduced taxes on the wealthy). Buttigieg is- on paper- not rich but when you actually look at what he owns, his equity, he's pretty dang rich. His policies are just a more palatable version of Republican policies.
Both of them should disappear, and both are proof that laws to prevent people from investing their personal money in their own political campaign are needed.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)