"The butt of global jokes": who might this be? (Talk Trump)

[Scot Dutchy]

I never moved any goalposts. I dont play childish adversarial games which you Ozzies just love.

[Brian Peacock]

I just think that if you're going to get into a national pissing contest then you're going to have to go a long way to beat Scotland and unchallenged position as providing the progenitors of the social, economic, and ethical architecture of our post-Enlightenment Western civilization.

Really think so. You know nothing of the society you live in.

You'd deny Scotland's history and unrivalled contribution to Western civilization out of spite?

[Scot Dutchy]

Of course they have contributed but so have many others or is this a pissing contest.

[Brian Peacock]

Sorry, I didn't mean to hit a nerve there Scot, but I didn't say that Scotland had made the only contribution or deny the contributions of others, only that the Scottish influence was unrivalled - that Scotland occupies an unchallenged position at the vanguard. This is simply a fact, and while there undoubtedly is much to criticise in post-Enlightenment Scottish history, as elsewhere, my point countered the view that Dutch society "created merchants, philosophers and artists earlier than most countries".

[Forty Two]

Of course they have contributed but so have many others or is this a pissing contest.

The biggest pissers are the Netherlanders.

[Forty Two]

Sorry, I didn't mean to hit a nerve there Scot, but I didn't say that Scotland had made the only contribution or deny the contributions of others, only that the Scottish influence was unrivalled - that Scotland occupies and unchallenged position at the vanguard. This is simply a fact, and while there undoubtedly is much to criticise in post-Enlightenment Scottish history, as elsewhere, my point countered the view that Dutch society "created merchants, philosophers and artists earlier than most countries".

The Dutch invented the wheel and cuneiform writing. They were also early pioneers of pyramid building. The Dutch saved many of the scrolls from the great library of Alexandria, and they built six out of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Ancient Greece and Rome were populated by ethnic and racial Dutch and those cultures only went brunette and olive skinned with successive migrations and invasions from the east and the south.

[Forty Two]

I just think that if you're going to get into a national pissing contest then you're going to have to go a long way to beat Scotland and unchallenged position as providing the progenitors of the social, economic, and ethical architecture of our post-Enlightenment Western civilization.

Really think so. You know nothing of the society you live in.

Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, George Campbell, Hector Boece? Morons!

The Scottish Enlightenment? More like a Scottish Dimlightenment!

[Scot Dutchy]

Sorry, I didn't mean to hit a nerve there Scot, but I didn't say that Scotland had made the only contribution or deny the contributions of others, only that the Scottish influence was unrivalled - that Scotland occupies an unchallenged position at the vanguard. This is simply a fact, and while there undoubtedly is much to criticise in post-Enlightenment Scottish history, as elsewhere, my point countered the view that Dutch society "created merchants, philosophers and artists earlier than most countries".

Brian, Scotland made a considerable contribution but what happened to the rest. Social justice? Forget it. Education was encouraged but why? Not because of the good to the working classes but rather the middle classes wanted staff that could read and count. What happened after that "golden age"? Class divisions increased.
In the Borders where the big land owners still rule. I was told to bow when the reporter (Buccleuch's henchman passed)

[Seabass]

Pentagon sending 5,200 troops to the border in 'Operation Faithful Patriot' amid Trump condemnation of migrant caravan
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white- ... on-n925866

[L'Emmerdeur]

"It was the dirty rotten anti-theists I tells ya!"

Fucking despicable Trump administration; a fountain of feces.

'Kellyanne Conway blamed synagogue shootings on “anti-religiosity”'

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway blamed Saturday’s Tree of Life synagogue shooting in which 11 were killed on “the anti-religiosity in this country.”

Speaking to Fox & Friends on Monday morning, Conway defended Trump against accusations that his nationalist rhetoric — including his continued stoking of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories against Jewish philanthropist billionaire George Soros — contributed to the radicalization of alleged shooter Robert Bowers.

Trump “denounced anti-Semitism,” Conway told the show’s hosts, before pivoting the discussion to the state of religion in America.

“The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue ... making fun of people who express religion, the late-night comedians, the unfunny people who go on TV. ... It’s always anti-religious,” she said, before invoking the 2015 fatal shooting of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, South Carolina, church by a white supremacist, Dylann Roof. “These people were gunned down in their place of worship,” she said of both the Charleston victims and those of Saturday’s shooting, before concluding that the shootings were a sign that “this is no time to be driving God out of the public square.”

[Tero]

He is unhappy. This election was not supposed to be pipe bombs and shot Jews. It was supposed to be Trump Trump Trump!

[L'Emmerdeur]

Two scientists who study the issue have weighed in on the Trump administration proposal on how it thinks government should deal with transgender people. They refute the assertions it makes; they must have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

'The Trump Administration's Proposed "Redefinition" of Gender Is Scientifically Absurd'

According to a recent report in the New York Times, the Department of Health and Human Services is “considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.” While the department’s memo purports to be “grounded in science,” the arguments and conclusions are not. Specifically, the memo argues that sex should be determined by—at different points in the purported memo—birth certificates, genitals and genetics. The problem with this argument is that none of these markers of sex is “definitive proof of a person’s sex” and in fact, nothing is. In reality, the course of becoming a “male” or “female” involves several steps, regulated by many genes and hormones.

Much of the time these processes all go in the same direction. But some of the time, they don’t. Seeing how that happens makes clear that the proposal, to define all people as male or female at birth, is scientifically dubious.

[pErvinalia]

Bloody Democrat scientists. Probably believe in global warming too..

[Animavore]

Wasi Mohamed is the executive director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh. This evening, at a community event, in front of thousands of people gathered to mourn the 11 Jewish souls murdered yesterday, he not only announced that the Muslim community had raised over $70,000 to pay for funeral and medical expenses of the victims, he also offered the protection of the Muslim community at Jewish services- literally offering to stand outside our synagogues— as well as to escort anyone there and back or even to a grocery store if they were scared.

He spoke so beautifully, so sincerely. The audience rose as a whole to applaud him.

I am honored to have the opportunity to work with him.

Barb Feige, Deputy Director Pennsylvania ACLU

[Brian Peacock]

Two scientists who study the issue have weighed in on the Trump administration proposal on how it thinks government should deal with transgender people. They refute the assertions it makes; they must have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

'The Trump Administration's Proposed "Redefinition" of Gender Is Scientifically Absurd'

According to a recent report in the New York Times, the Department of Health and Human Services is “considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.” While the department’s memo purports to be “grounded in science,” the arguments and conclusions are not. Specifically, the memo argues that sex should be determined by—at different points in the purported memo—birth certificates, genitals and genetics. The problem with this argument is that none of these markers of sex is “definitive proof of a person’s sex” and in fact, nothing is. In reality, the course of becoming a “male” or “female” involves several steps, regulated by many genes and hormones.

Much of the time these processes all go in the same direction. But some of the time, they don’t. Seeing how that happens makes clear that the proposal, to define all people as male or female at birth, is scientifically dubious.

Ah, but you see, those scientists are not making the correct and necessary distinction between sex and gender, therefore they're wrong because reasons. And if scientists are wrong on that fundamental matter then Trump must, perforce, be right as his administration's definition is the only other game in town. This is how reason trumps science.