Yes, that was exactly what Lee wanted. Destroy traitorous symbols from the pro- slavery rebels. The Lee statues in confederate uniform particularly are an assault on what Lee stood for, his image was co-opted by the racists and installed with the other confederate statues with a sole purpose of intimidating blacks. You may not agree with Lee, but I respect him enough to support his wishes and therefore yes I think it’s good the Lee Confederate statues are finally being moved from prominent public display. After the war, he was not proud of what the Confederacy fought for or proud of the civil strife. Statues of Lee with no confederate memorabilia, on the other hand, are great. Gen. Lee should be remembered.
“I think it wiser,” the retired military leader wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, “…not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.”
At least it was done the right way. If enough people don’t like it, they can elect different representatives. The difference here is that if at a later time the sentiment changes, that statue could potentially be it back there - unlikely, but the point is that it wasn’t just destroyed by an unruly mob. It’s still being preserved.
I do wonder how anyone can, with a straight face, claim that state bailouts are desperately needed while at the same time budgeting a half million dollars to commission a new statue…
Personally, I get my news from places that dont have to run retractions of everything they said for months, and say they have no evidence of any of it.
Since these links purport to have true information, you folks can simply find sources for those facts that aren’t owned by hostile nations.Despite repeatedly requesting this, you folks haven’t.
Personally I dont accept “news” from a nation our own Secretary of State says is actively hostile to us.
It would be like accepting the word of Tokyo Rose.
Great to see Smartmatic’s lawyers bringing the fear of god to these news outlets. OANN, Fox News and Newsmax have deliberately spread falsehoods to sow mistrust among average voters for too long.
I dont blindly believe such things. But when they bring something out of the shadows, and the only response is to desperately insist on pushing it back into the shadows, it really makes you wonder.
But others seem to want to treat “news” like a criminal trial - where the guy everyone knows is guilty gets off because the search warrant had a typo.
Instead of deciding who to listen to, perhaps you should just listen, then arrive at your own conclusions…
No, I don’t. I haven’t seen or read about any proof of this theory, but I have experienced the opposite in practice. As someone who has had multiple “side gigs” and filed Schedule C (business taxes) on top of a W-2 for many years, the higher my personal income tax rate, the more sense it makes to spend or invest as much business revenue as possible (i.e., business expenses are relatively cheaper when tax rates are higher). For example, if I’m in a 50% effective tax rate (federal+state+self-employment), then spending $100 of business revenue on a deductible business expense results in just $50 out of my pocket (i.e., after-tax). If my effective rate was only 15%, for example, then I’d be more incentivized to take it as profit instead of looking at how to best spend it. This is an example of a high tax environment incentivizing business growth and investment.
What really makes me wonder is why you’d ever bother with anything that goes through a Kremlin filter. You do understand that everything out of Russia goes through a Kremlin filter, don’t you? The Russian propaganda machine was built on top of a well-researched and trained Soviet propaganda machine. It’s very effective. You never know which stories were manipulated and how they were manipulated, what was omitted and what was only slightly modified. And sure, some stories go through unchanged, but none can be believed.
"U.S. deaths increase most years, so some annual rise in fatalities is expected. But the 2020 numbers amount to a jump of about 15%, and could go higher once all the deaths from this month are counted.
That would mark the largest single-year percentage leap since 1918, when tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers died in World War I and hundreds of thousands of Americans died in a flu pandemic. Deaths rose 46% that year, compared with 1917.
COVID-19 has killed more than 318,000 Americans and counting. Before it came along, there was reason to be hopeful about U.S. death trends."
And “our side” has ample opportunity to set the record straight. But lately, most often they choose to just turtle on the issue and try to make the source the story instead. As I said numerous times, all Biden had to say was “there is no hard drive” or “those messages have been altered” and then we’d have a choice about what to believe. But instead, all we get is “but but but Russia!”, and even that only came from third parties who were guessing.
When your entire response is to claim the Russians shouldn’t be allowed to bring things out of the shadows, of course lots of people are going to wonder what you are trying to keep hidden in those shadows.
Canadian border agents denied entry to the hit squad, known as the “Tiger Squad Defendants,” the complaint said."
"Mohammed personally texted al-Jabri to say he would enforce measures that “would be harmful to you” if he didn’t come home, according to al-Jabri’s lawsuit.
Al-Jabri declined the requests, and in March 2020, two of his children were kidnapped from their beds in Riyadh. Al-Jabri said in his complaint that they are being used as leverage to force him to come back to Saudi Arabia."
Trump wants to make murder, and kidnapping and imprisonment of children okay.
Couple of rare moments of honesty in the news late yesterday:
On the PBS New Hour, vividly liberal news reader Judy Woodruff asked Dr. Fauci to comment on Trump’s not having done the obligatory “get the vaccination while on camera” photo op. After all, she pointed out, many other very high profile political leaders have already done so. She wanted a slight smile and a “no comment” from the Doctor so she could push her customary “Orange man bad” thesis.
Instead Dr. Fauci told the truth and Woodruff was forced to move off the topic pronto with her loss. Dr. Fauci said recipients of monoclonal antibodies must wait ninety days before being vaccinated. And, he pointed out, for Trump it has not yet been ninety days.
You have to assume Woodruff did not know the answer to her question in advance, else she never would have asked it. Nothing of any sort exculpatory, or favorable, for Trump is allowed to be broadcast on the PBS New Hour. Woodruff messed up.
Separately and unrelated to the above, I was also surprised to hear Biden offer words of praise and respect, on camera, for Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. Credit where due on both sides: Good for Biden for taking such a large measure of political risk in order to be honest.
Remember, Trump turns on and tries to destroy all his allies. He works harder at this than with people actually opposed to him. He will turn on most of his other supporters as well if they do not show 100% allegiance and willingness to destroy themselves for him.
I think there are two goalposts in play here (note, I’m not saying you are moving the goalpost). Reinvestment, and new investment.
When taxes make the potential reward much less lucrative, you tend to be for more selective with the risks you are willing to take. After giving away half your profit to taxes, will the net still worth the risk you’re exposing yourself, verses safer options for that capital?
Whereas, those reinvesting profits are more willing to do so since, in effect, half the investment is house money. Which can in fact be a cause of this consolidation of wealth everyone gets so upset about; far more capital is being reinvested by those who already had lots of capital.
I dont think there is a “right” answer, it requires threading the needle between the two perspectives.