anony.miss

Serving schadenfreude - and eggs!

As well, the mod for our forum left a link to the Questions thread in her mod note last night, offering to answer any questions people here had. All you have to do is follow her link and post a question. Anyone seeking answers has an easy way to pursue that.

You are not Trump, nor are you a Republican official, nor are you (or any of the other conservatives posting here) the source of MAGA insults about minorities, women, the differently abled, etc, quoted, criticized, and linked to news sources here. And for the record: Right wing posters here have accused Biden of rape, genocide, gibbering senility, graft, etc and none of us personalized it. In fact, if I remember correctly, nobody even bothered to respond to those posts. If this forum is shut down, it will be because hostility and spite became the focus, not discussion, and posts attacking this forum and the mods are not listed as on topic for this forum. Can we please stay on topic?

I think your link shows that Asian Americans are 13 percent of the Sacramento population overall, and Chinese Americans are 21 percent within that 13 percent: 13.1% Asian Share of Total Pop 21% Chinese Share of Asian Am I agree. It's not asking too much of the person in charge to inform Black players that an image with hundreds of years of racist associations is actually a celebration of the Year of the Monkey, not some disturbing racist thing coming at them from the stands.

Pritzker was excellent! No pussyfooting or placating, pure hardball. I thought this section was so well said: "I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately... Here’s what I’ve learned. The root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame. I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks, arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems. I have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next? All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most." https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/full-text-illinois-gov-jb-pritzkers-state-of-the-state-address/3678119/

The first post of yours I read complaining about this was back in November or December; it's now almost March. If the mods are choosing to respond via forum messages with links, then that's your answer; that's how moderating is happening in this forum. So do what the rest of us do. Post comments, memes and cartoons knowing deletions happen. Or post somewhere else where the rules are more to your liking. But posting negative talk about the mods and this forum overall is just not tenable, imo. It 's also disruptive to the people who post here, without incident, every day. Not to speak for anyone else, but I do get a strong sense that many people value this forum. We're grateful it's here. And part of the issue seems to be that you don't value this forum as it is, or like it much. At times, from what you've posted, you've seemed more resentful than appreciative, with a list of things you want changed. And that's absolutely your right to feel that way, but I'd like to point out something you might want to consider: most forums don't tolerate any public criticism of their mods, of any kind. So if nothing else, maybe you can appreciate you've been given a lot of leeway to criticize the very people who make this forum possible. More than fair on their part, imo.

JMO: I think the mods do a great job, but if I felt like you do, I'd contact them privately. Publicly attacking them over and over again - for months, now - fixes nothing, and only derails on-topic discussion for the rest of us. Ha! Hoist, meet petard. This dangerous, terrifying piece of propaganda is also banned:

Not so fast giving Putin that rose, Donald! "The Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found 81 percent of respondents said Putin should not be trusted, including 73 percent of Republicans surveyed and 93 percent of Democrats. Just 9 percent of the voters surveyed said Putin, a former KGB officer who has been in power in Russia for decades, should be trusted." https://thehill.com/policy/international/5153611-quinnipiac-poll-russia-putin-trust/ ... maybe the penny will finally drop for Republicans (and the few remaining Indies supporting Trump) when they realize Trump's policies benefit only Putin. (Trump's hardly been subtle about his agenda, imo - isolating Americans by threatening allies, undermining American prestige abroad, the military now in the hands of an incompetent drunk, the head of intel a pro-Russian mouthpiece, the sense of economic instability growing - mass firings, tariffs, Trumpflation - and now destabilizing the world by trashing NATO.) There's not a single benefit to American democracy in anything Trump has done since taking office - but damn, you sure are happy about the last month if you're Vladimir Putin, former KGB czar.

I will concede he's the King of "hamburders" ; )

He's not just "winding people up". He's grooming his voters and Republicans to accept increasing breaches and abuses of presidential power as normal behavior in the Oval Office: "Republicans Happily Roll Over as Trump Declares Himself King:...Republicans’ sycophantic support demonstrates that Trump’s autocratic (or monarchic) ranting isn’t merely him going rogue; it’s a distinct rhetorical feature of his entire administration, which has already set to work uprooting the checks and balances that underpin American democracy, and replacing it with something wholly different. On Tuesday night, Elon Musk claimed that “if the will of the president is not implemented, and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented. And that means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy.” It’s not a bureaucracy Americans need fear, but a monarchy." https://newrepublic.com/post/191718/republicans-donald-trump-king-congestion-pricing

Trump's America: "A Texas mother is seeking answers after her 11-year-old daughter committed suicide after being bullied by her classmates over her family's immigration status. The child, identified as Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, was a sixth-grade student at Gainesville Intermediate School. Jocelynn was repeatedly harassed by classmates, who taunted her and threatened to call ICE to deport her family, Univision reported. The bullying was so severe that Jocelynn reported it to school authorities multiple times—yet no action was taken. Marbella added that she was not informed about the bullying until after her daughter's death. On February 3, after enduring months of bullying, Jocelynn made the devastating decision to end her life. The sixth-grader's death comes amid an aggressive push by the Trump administration to deport people who are in the United States illegally." https://www.ibtimes.sg/texas-girl-11-commits-suicide-after-classmates-bullied-her-threatened-call-ice-deport-her-78564 That poor girl, and her poor family.

Another interesting cultural shift: Trump's approval rating with younger voters has cratered over the last two weeks: "Trump sees massive drop in young people support after riding them to an election win: Just 39 percent of adults under 30-years-old who responded to the latest Economist/YouGov poll reported a favorable opinion of Trump. That number stood at 50 percent just two weeks ago." https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-cool-anymore-trump-sees-163934501.html That's a massive drop in only fourteen days. Trump has also lost favor with adults aged 30 to 44. In that demo, he was at 45% favorable vs 51% unfavorable, and is now at 42% favorable vs 55% unfavorable.

This is a really interesting (and imo, hopeful) cultural shift - Joe Rogan has lost his number one position to an anti-Trump podcast: "Joe Rogan Dethroned by Anti-Trump Podcast in the Charts: The podcast charts have largely been dominated by shows with a conservative or pro-Trump voice, and the likes of Joe Rogan, Shawn Ryan and Ben Shapiro have frequently appeared in the top 10. Trump himself appeared on a number of these podcasts, eschewing traditional media outlets, as part of his successful bid for reelection in 2024. Less than a month into the new administration, the rise of the left-leaning MeidasTouch to become the country's most popular podcast indicates a potential shift in tone currently resonating with Americans. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-rogan-dethroned-meidas-touch-podcast-donald-trump-2032673 Rogan lost 32 percent in downloads/plays from last month (48.6 million this month) vs TheMeidasTouch at 56 million downloads/plays this month.

Since the U.S. has the right to only 22 nautical miles of continental shelf in the area, Trump can't slap America's name on the Gulf - I guess he could legally rename it The Shelf of America, but reminding people the food on their shelves is rising in cost due to Trumpflation would be pretty damn stupid (even for him). I read today that most Americans reject him pulling this crap - a rare victory for common sense in the Trump era: "Almost Nobody Wants to Call It the Gulf of America: A Marquette University poll released Wednesday found that 71 percent of respondents opposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico with only 29 percent saying they were in favor of the change. A YouGov poll taken just days after Trump was sworn in found similar results with only 28 percent of people surveyed supporting the switch. A Harvard CAPS–Harris poll from January found that 72 percent of registered voters were against adopting the “Gulf of America” name with 28 percent backing it." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-gulf-of-mexico-gulf-of-america.html

Trump does not own the whole Gulf of Mexico. He has no right to rename it That's why Mexico is suing Google for kissing Trump's repulsive ass: "Mexico will take Google to court if maps shown to US-based users continue to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America across the entire body of water, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday, arguing that US President Donald Trump’s order to rename it only applies to the part of the continental shelf under US control. “What Google is doing here is changing the name of the continental shelf of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do with Trump’s decree, which applied only to the US continental shelf,” Sheinbaum told reporters. “We do not agree with this, and the Foreign Minister has sent a new letter addressing the issue.” Sheinbaum said the renaming is “incorrect,” adding that Trump’s decree “only changed the name within his own continental shelf, which extends 22 nautical miles from the US coast—not the entire Gulf.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/americas/sheinbaum-google-lawsuit-threat-gulf-of-mexico-intl-latam/index.html Trump also doesn't own Canada, Greenland, or Gaza, and has no right to bully, threaten, harass, invade, ethnically cleanse, strip mine for natural resources or rename any sovereign territory. Far too many Trump supporters don't seem to grasp that Trump is not king of the world (or that outside the States, Trump is pretty well universally loathed, despised, and mocked for being a convicted felon and rapist who runs his mouth, threatening world stability and the sovereignty of other nations, while invoking foolish policies that shoot America in the economic foot). This 'renaming' bullshit being wrong is not a complicated issue, imo - just look at where we're posting - I can't go into your account and change it on a whim, forcing others to start calling you by a name I've picked. Surely sovereign nations have the same rights as posters on this board?