Cynique

So everyone has the potential to be a shaman/mystic because we come here already equipped with the tools. Right? Wrong?

Retrumpicans aren't interested in preserving democracy. They currently want to dismantle it in order to reinstate their brand of white supremacy. When has cooperation ever been the goal of opposing parties? Embodiment of different political philosophies is why there are 2 parties, not one. Representing their different constituencies is the main concern of politicians.

@ProfD don't think it's for fun. it's for the survival of democracy and the direction this country goes in.

@nelsAnd do you know how you sound? Like a deflated fool frustrated by having your ego bruised and your agenda exposed. An agenda that includes spamming this board with your cherry picked "recommended reading" aka right wing propaganda, Your lame retort is full of the fallacious sophistry you resort to in your pathetic attempts to legitimize yourself. No wonder you worship Donald Trump. You're a phony just like him.

@MzuriWhat was your senseless reason for posting some irrelevant quotes from back in 2013??? And you have a very selective memory as befitting someone as deceitful as you are. I started retaliating to you when you kept lying about me, sayin that when I worked at the post office I was slinging sacks and braiding hair on my breaks, something you scoured the archives to verify but couldn't find any reference to my ever having said that. Even now, in an attempt at ridicule, you continue on a regular basis to cast me as a cat lady making up scenarios about this, when I repeatedly told you that I wasn't that into cats, not to mention your chiding me if i said things about Pioneer that you didn't approve of as you now twist the truth in an devious effort to present yourself as a victim instead of the taunter that you really are. Get outta here. i don't care about why you're posting today or whether you find me interesting or not. Our disregard for each other is certainly mutual. So be it. zzzzzzz i won't tell you to have a nice evening because i don't give a damn whether you do or not.

https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/1875-ladies-in-waiting/#comment-7798 Just shut it you troll. Well it's no secret that we were OK before you started lying on me and being a feverent right winger. I loved Writergirl, Waterstar, and Crystal. But i always did think you were mercurial and a little "off". Whatever. Who cares?

Oh quit bellyaching. You started the name-calling and visuals. You can dish it out the but you can't take it, and that is the case in every exchange with you.

wh @nelsDoesn't remind me of that, and your guess about Stefan is debatable, not to mention your skewed judgment of anybody who doesn't post what you want to hear. As if others have an obligation to defer to your preferences. A lofty stance for somebody who has little of interest to say outside of stroking and being stroked by your right wing bedfellows,- when you're not providing links to sources that do your thinking for you. You apparently want to control the tone on this site which you have adopted as a platform for your political views and personal opinions. But you are not qualified to assume that position. You're off key, yourself. OK, Mzuri and what's-his-name, you two can come to the defense of your security blanket.

The left is divided between Progressives and Moderate Democrats all in various modes of their "lifting others as we climb" mission statement. But right wing blacks march in lock step with their fuhrer and his storm troopers all of one mind with their "I got mine, now you get yours" creed.

People always want to bring up Obama's flaws when i criticize Trump. But I've never idolized Obama. i do think he was a victim of Republican obstructionism and blamed for being a president who happened to be black, as opposed to a black president but I was not enamoured of him. It should be noted, however, that historians give his presidency high marks. BTW, Omarosa denounced Trump as racist when she was ousted from her white house position.

Acquitted of impeachment. if your scar from a cut heals, it doesn't undo the fact that you were cut.

It's a tabloid format, Dummy. And i repeat. You are no more of an authority that Wikipedia.

Being acquitted does not void the fact that Trump was impeached, and history will record this. That was the motive of the Democrats who knew they didn't have the votes to enforce the impeachment.

Does it look like a full sized paper, air head? Wikipedia describes it has a tabloid format. A source which is a reliable as you are.

Yeah, and the The Daily Mail is a tabloid, bitch.

Since when do you care about facts? You're lying about Whoopi because you don't live around her or know what she's like in person. What ever you read is marinated in the venom of your right wing piss. Go slither back into the grass that mercifully conceals you from view, you scaly snake.

Keeping score about who is more lascivious between the Retrumpicans and the Democrats is a meaningless exercise. But i do find it significant how these black Retrumpicans rush to the defense of and try to sanitize their massas, obviously convinced they are pillars of virtue who - when restored to power will throw them some crumbs.. I don't feel the need to excuse Dems from possibly being guilty of doing what all powerful people do, But i do place significance on incidents like the typical heavily armed Retrumpican fool,who travelled up north to NY to track down a pizza parlor where he was told that Hillary Clinton was running a pedophile ring in the basement of - and found nothing. And of course there the ongoing belief among Retrumpican faithful that Dems are lizard people who live off the blood of young children to survive. These are just examples of how irrational Retrumpicans are. They live in an alternate universe where truth is a foreign concept. At this stage, i just go with my gut and it recoils in a visceral response to these bootlickin black right wing conservative who idolize their white leaders. Black Dems use Biden, he doesn't use them. He needs them. They don't need him specifically. Black conservatives live in the furtive hope that they will one glorious day reach their dream of being artificial whites. All they have to do is be good negroes

@MzuriThat petty character assassination of Whoopi is typical of you. And the reason why you don't like The View is because you are mesmerized by all of those lying pseudo journalists on the Fox channel who, along with that tabloid rag, "The Daily Mirror", reinforce your affinity for fake news. You try to distance yourself from that ass hole Trump but it's becoming increasing clear that you are very much at home with all of those looney tunes who follow him. And spare me your tired litany about Biden being a white racist, inasmuch as he is bending over backwards to placate his black constituency. So who cares? Whoopi is correct in her assertion because Jews are not a race. They are a sect that embraces the religion of Judaism. Accepting the idea that they are a race is being aligned with the Nazi point of view. Many are coming forth to point this out. ABC feels an obligation to slap Whoopi on the wrist in order to cater to the powerful Jewish community. I am not a big fan of Whoopi but she's no worse than that Retrumpican moron Marjorie Taylor Greene who you undoubtedly identify with because her reason for not wearing panties is that her coochie needs airing out.

@richardmurray OK, i hear ya. Personally, if i am in doubt about someone's ethnicity, i go by what they say they are. In this case, both the director and screenwriter for "Passing" claimed to be black women and i mentioned their being that because these are jobs rarely held by women of color and i wanted to give them their props.

Three to the 8th power Not certain how this is measuring intelligence. You either get it right or you get it wrong. So there is no scale for using this "test" to determine intelligence. Aka 81 squared. @DelNels is a self-styled arbitrator of intelligence which is equivalent to a snail evaluating the speed of an iguana. Don't woke him up. Let him slept on.

OK. My confusion is clearing up.

@Stefan You're doing a good job against the trump tag team that is always whining about the ad hominem retorts they, themselves, are guilty of. These right wing jackals are conditioned to respond to any attack on Trump, a difficult job because he is so guilty of every terrible thing he's accused of. And in addition to being delusional, these suck-ups have tunnel vision, oblivious to the white supremist element that is woven into the fabric of the Retrumpican banner, - an element made up of the militant groups who were a part of a failed coup to overturn the election and overthrow the government, the lunatic yahoos who think Democrats are lizard people that suck the blood of children, the fetus-worshipping evangelical right-to-life hypocrites, the lying, ignorant, lecherous Retrumpican Senators and Congressmen. Those are the comrades of the black parrots of Retrumpican propaganda, and posters of cherry-picked links to right wing rags who have infiltrated this site. They all belong to the same party, and this party's leaders all pay homage to Donald Trump, and this party's followers all concur with the idea that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. They are all one big herd, and that herd includes the black sheep who bleat on this forum. You cannot change the minds of these cult members but you can stand up to them. Whether you want or need it, you have my moral support.

@MzuriThis from a person who uses the derogatory term "whitey". So, did you apply the same perfect world criteria to Trump's supreme court appointees? I doubt it because you have no standards where right wing scum bags are concerned. Biden is looking to replace a Liberal presence to maintain some semblance of balance on the Supreme court bench, and if that choice happens to be a qualified black woman, of which there are many, then why are you bristling? You act as though the Supreme Court has never been about politics. And if you're so desirous of a color blind society, stop being so fixated on what you consider Biden's white racism. Call him what he is. A product of the environment in which he was raised.

i can only speak for myself. If your blood is not pure, you are mixed. Society's criteria always tends to be more about anthropology than physiology, but the ruling class prevails. This is why the dominate white society was able to ignore the converse of the one drop of black blood rule. Obviously the one drop rule is just that; a rule not a reality. Those whose genes enabled them to deceive the eye, beat The System - often with tragic results. Well, the resistance to this term might have something to do with the word "negro" which now has a negative connotation. i don't know that Hughes was showing a preference for the word "renaissance". it could have been more about the word "new". The type of black people who came into prominence during the era in question were moreorless the elite among their race and this elite class was not "new".

@nelsThis doggerel is typical of the blather you babble. @Troy@Prof@nels your observations about the black "race" fill me with deja vu...