News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

There are plenty of misguided folks out there who worship Charlie much
as millions of misguided Germans worshipped Adolf, only to eventually reap
the suffering upon themselves which they inflicted on so many others.

What goes around comes around and payback time bites hard!

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [221]

Many clueless young people, almost exclusively women, typically with an ahistorical memory,
for whom 9/11 is ancient history, find Islamic accoutrements attractive and the burkha/kitab combo sexy.
Some might actually make a deep study of the Muslim faith and even convert, perhaps because they
are in the experimental phase of their still young lives (many not yet out of their teens or mid-twenties!),
without regard for or grounded understanding of the Western tradition.

All this is another direct result of the fallout from the Woodstock Era; everything traditionally European
is thus boring, indeed suspect, while everything Near Eastern, African, and Asian is somehow, cool, in,
desirable.

Ignorance is always the death knell of civilization. As Santayana once said.......

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Hear, hear Alien!

@Rich,
You do realize of course that Big Don in the White House is the new Teflon Don.
I hope you can see that, it's not such a mystery, what with his Mafia ties etc.
Remember, only the current president can lie with impunity.....and NOT even get
called on the carpet.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

A rise in purchase prices out of synch with average daily cost of living expenses,
something which the President's childishly vengeful tariffs have exacerbated for
the US public, save of course for the top 1%, the usual suspects!

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Boy, that's sure a switch, considering ol' man Freddy was a Long Island Klansman way
back in the day.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@PolAmKrakow,
The problem is that the Dems have relinquished their contract with their
fellow US citizens! Once again, the proverbial pendulum has swung in the opposite
direction and standards of excellence have long since been abandoned in favor of a
a woke philosophy based on an outmoded, idiotic Woodstock Era philosophy, according to
which discipline is tantamount to faschism and order, organization, to militarism.

As this anti-intellectualism is far from the promise of the New Deal, Roosevelt must be turning over in his grave.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@Rich,
For the bazillionth time, the reasons that Reagan was elected, paving the way for Tea Party Republicans
and later the MAGA movement, were and still are untrammeled greed, egotism, above all, social diaper rash!!
Compare the likes of Trump's inner circle, among others, Pete Hegseth & Co. with the likes of Wm. P. Rogers,
Ted Sorensen, Robt. McNamara along with rest of the Camelot Coterie under JFK, and we can't avoid a glaring
glance at the infantility of the current crowd. Even the first Reagan Admin. had more literate folks in the cabinet than
today. In Hegseth's lovely speech before the Joint Armed Services Committee several weeks ago, he let more than
one four-letter word slip out, as his speech was really a rant and, like his boss, he ended up venting rather than
speaking.

America today no longer understands her societal responsibilities to ALL Americans, not simply the top 1%.
I'm hardly "against" the concept of success. I am against the concept of success at any and all human costs.
Were there more Aaron Feuersteins out there, the US and the world would be a better place for everyone.

In the end, we're not on Earth to do solely what we want to do 24/7, but instead what we have to to.....or
risk the consequences of increased violence, lashing out, and anti-Americanism world wide, not to mention
anti-Semitism, here at home.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@Maf, the average person believes what they WANT TO believe, even
when it's an out and out lie!!

Trump has the public buffaloed. As race was the number one issue during the campaign,
Trump played on the public's fears like a Stradavarius, tapping into their myriad weaknesses,
such as infantilism, ignorance, petty bigotry, isolationism and selfishness.

Classifieds / Need Food And Clothes [86]

No country, including the US, wishes to be seen as simply a way station,
a pit stop along the highway to prosperity.

Poland's no exception.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Hate speech, PolAmKrakow???

What's hateful about exposing the truth?
The only thing the truth hurts is those who lie:-)

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

The bulk of the US voted and votes Republican, period!
As the majority of so-called "red" states are typically rural,
it should come as little to no surprise that most of the voters
in these states consider themselves a self-reliant bunch who
uniformly despise the federal government and associate
urban America with the den of hated gov't programs.

The late Charlie Kirk, Rush Limbaugh, pop, quasi-demagogues with quick and snappy answers (especially Rush) and others were the
beloved mouthpiece of this disenfranchised group.

Morever, hardly a coincedence that most red staters are white:-)

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

More famous abroad in death than in life, is that it?

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@Rich,
The NYT typically capitalizes Black when referring to people,
oh, but I forgot, you don't read the paper:-)

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

As far as Charlie's doubts about Black pilots, I guess he's never heard of
or cared about the Tuskegee Airmen:-)

The lack of a strong Black presence in numerous professions had far less to do
with competence and more to do with prejudice plain and simple!

Classifieds / Need Food And Clothes [86]

If the dude can't speak or doesn't even know the language of
where he wants to stay, best to stay home.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Kirk spoke to people's frustrations, rather than their hopes! While it certainly
is a sad, indeed regrettable, fact that the Dems have ignored their target home
base for decades now, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction,
and the White man in America finally has a movement.

Unfortunately, it's not a movement of which any thinking American would be proud.
As throughout much of US history, we've moved from one horrendous extreme
to the other.

Classifieds / Need Food And Clothes [86]

At least learn to ask/beg in Polish!
Poland is not a melting pot, send me your huddled masses type society
like the US, where up until recently any non-English speaking wetback
could almost swim across the Rio Grande into North American waters
and end up picking fruit in Southern California, albeit for slave wages.

You really need to consult the local Consulate in your home country
prior to landing abroad.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

The operative word here, PolAmKrakow is "responsible"!
If anything is used irresponsibly, eventually it'll lead to a bad end.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Exactly!

If folks our there weren't packin' heat,
no guns would go off:-)

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [135]

Amen, Maf!

Open vowels in Polish are a breeze for Latin language speakers
such as in Spanish or Italian, it's those myriad consonant clusters
over which they break their tongue:-)

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [135]

P - S - H - E- T- V - O- Y - E - F - S - K- E- E

Life / If you lived abroad, would you like to have a Pole as a neighbor? [93]

The enemy you fear and from whom you wish to protect yourselves, the "barbarians",
might well be right in your own backyard aka your fellow Poles.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@PolAmKrakow,

Even Jews complain constantly about infighting within the religion,
lack of solidarity as compared with amongst African-Americans etc.

American Jews seem to be "connected" as concerns Holocaust survivors
and the ultra-Orthodox communities (from which mega financial
contributions are expected!!!), that is, as regards key or select themes.
As concerns the average Jew, those who slip through the so-called "donut hole",
those among the lower-middle class, those who aren't extremely wealthy etc.,
the Jewish community all but abandons this group, and I'm not even discussing the actions by
the Brooklyn or Monsey slumlords.

Just to be clear, had George Floyd been Jewish, the only movement behind him would have
been a bowel movement, again, he made his bed, now he simply has to lie in it and accept his
"loser" status.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

The point is, that African-Americans, compared with certain others,
e.g. Jewish groups, stick together and rally behind their brethren,
even if the brother/sister in question is not always a model citizen,
but someone who's fallen on hard times! Far too often, Caucasian-
Americans take the attittude, "You make your bed, you lie in it!"
African-Americans on the whole know better.

George Floyd might have been placed in hand cuffs as opposed
to a choke hold, therefore allowing for rehabilitation instead
of making him a martyr.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Anyone who disagrees with what is roughly called "the truth"
is a distortionist, I see.

I see in your future a promising career in law, politics or real estateLOL

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

You mean then he is entitled to lie or distort the truth with impunity, is that it?
@Joker, at least under FDR, you'd have had a bed in which to hear the stories:-)
Ck. out Art Buchwald's "The Republican Twenty-Third Psalm:

Nixon is my shepherd
I shall always want.
He maketh me to lie down on park benches,
He leadeth me beside the still factories,
He restoreth my doubt in the Republican Party.
Yea, poverty and misery shall follow me all the days of my life,
And I shall live in the rented house forever.

Two thousand years ago, Moses said
"Bring your camel, take your shovel, mount your ass
And I shall lead you to the Promised Land!"

Two thousand years later, Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed
"Leave your camel, put down your shovel, sit on your ass
This is the Promised Land!"

Nixon will steal your camel, sell your shovel, kick you in the ass
and tell you there is no Promised Land!!

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

@PolAmKrakow,
Have you read Charlie Kirk's remarks on George Floyd?

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Point is, Kirk was belittling the murder of a black man by a white police officer
who bloody well deserved to have the book thrown at him in spades, no pun intended here.

Furthermore, it's not mature behavior to let drip from one's mouth or pen every little ignorant
thought one has in their head.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

Charlie made disparaging remarks about Jews, non-Christians, above all, nasty assertions
about George Floyd, relating to the fact that he was African-American.

The fact that he was black had nothing to do with his value as a human being!
He showed more sympathy for Officer Chauvin than he did for the Floyd, who,
a la Eric Garner, was placed in an unauthorized choke hold!!

Pity that the police stick together, often at the expense of doing the right thing.
"You people don't know how tough it is being a cop!"

Yes, there is truth in such an assertion. However, is this not merely an excuse
for some racist policeman to justify placing a choke hold on a man whose sole
misdemeanor was, stealing a friggin' pack of cigarettes??

Many professionals are similar. Lawyers too feel themselves a band of brothers
who would never criticize a fellow attorney, same with school teachers etc.

This is unfair and folks out there shouldn't be surprised that there's so much
violence in America.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [601]

I figured that. Vilified in life, martyred in death.
We deserved better! His hateful rhetoric didn't merit nearly the attention it received.

On the other hand, Kimmel's flip comments were shameful and he should have been censured.