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The Venezuelan gangs in Aurora, or the Haitians eating pets in Springfield, are fabricated stories. They both have kernels of truth, but they are blown so far out of proportion as to be farcical. Read local news accounts from either of those communities and see what they have to say...

Do you think Trump has been silenced? Or any other right-wing personality? Fox is the most popular cable news station in the world. The Top 20 list of political podcasts is littered with right-wing content. One of the largest social media platforms in the world is run by someone who has endorsed...

I trust mainstream media (e.g. network, AP, Reuters), so that is always my fallback. I do not trust anything at face value from cable news networks (CNN, Fox, MSNBC, or the bin of loonies that lie on either of the fringes). I also trust major print media...although most have a left-leaning...

A well-reasoned approach. There is another interesting discussion to be had some day about the libertarian-leaning elements of the GOP (an important but shrinking group) and the more "state-imposed virtue" elements (a growing group, probably best exemplified by JD Vance). I have heard these...

Ukraine's parliament voted to end its neutral status with regard to NATO after Russia annexed part of its country in 2014 (Crimea). There have been relationships between Ukraine and NATO going back to 1994, but Ukraine was not seeking to deepen those until their sovereignty was violated.

As it pertains to President, no one's vote really matters unless they are in one of the 7 states that are actually close. Here in Iowa, we are not in one of those states. Do you still vote for the local stuff, or abstain altogether?

I don't think comparing Trump to prior fascist dictators convinces any trump supporter to move away from him. We are so desensitized by Godwin's Law: for the last 2 decades, we have fairly consistently heard Bush, Obama, and Trump all compared to Hitler. Further, we envision Nazi Germany as this...

How did appeasement work out prior to WWII? Do authoritarian autocrats typically accept a compromise and then decide they will behave?

Kelly is a military man with an exemplary record. His account is backed up by numerous sources, and it echoes similar accounts provided by many more of Trump's cabinet members and staff. These are all Republicans, by the way. For the life of me, I cannot understand why people think Trump is the...

https://forum.hawkeyenation.com/threads/resar.97824/ That @#1DieHardHawk guy might know some stuff.

Kelly has been saying these things for years on background (reporters knew who it was coming from and reported as such), he just refused to say it on record. He said the straw that broke that camel's back was Trump's "enemies from within" rants of late, which is why he decided to go on record...

What you are saying is probably what worries me the most...the idea that everything is F'd up and nothing matters. I think that is hard for us to recover from. I think the @Bordone is hinting at the answer...the electoral system needs to be fixed to try to restore some faith in the system.

But one of these candidates has former associates saying he is a dangerous choice for the country...and the other is just a standard politician. If you hate all politicians, I don't blame you, our government ain't exactly lighting it up on the scoreboard. But Trump's former high-ranking...

I appreciate your thoughts. Not directly related to your post, but I found this recent article interesting, you might as well (if you haven't already seen it...it's a long piece): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/magazine/dei-university-michigan.html An exerpt: On campus, I met students...

I was formerly a right-leaning centrist, but Trump and what he has done to the Republican party has pushed me leftward. I find his character and infidelity to the truth completely disqualifying. That said, I have lots of family who support him, and I know lots of folks around here do, too. I...

In the case-report over this issue, it was noted that previous times this workout had been used, it was either immediately post-season (2007), or during week 15 of a 21 week training block (2004). In 2011 with the rhabdo incident, it was immediately after a 3-week break (first workout of the...

I feel tension between 2 different ideas: 1) There is bias built into our various institutions that make it more difficult for some people to get ahead, and we all have our own personal biases that can make it difficult to understand others on a personal-level. Things like DEI programs were...

Not disagreeing with anything, just adding some other info. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa had an external review fairly recently, and one of the glaring findings was that many minority students found the campus/community to be unwelcoming. Not insinuating that this in any way...

Charlie Jones had a KO return for a TD, yesterday. Tracy didn't do much in a bad loss, but he is an NFL starting RB with a 100 yard game on his resume.

I know a few people turned into early season WNBA games and decided to pack it in. Those early games were ugly. The playoffs have been excellent basketball, and the finals even moreso. Great drama, great intensity, great shot-making. Even if you haven't been watching any games to date, tune into...