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No. He had a gross misunderstanding, intentional or not, of what DEI is. The rest of that quote does not improve the context. He said he specifically questioned the pilot's competence because of skin color. Just like he questioned Justice Jackson's abilities to be a supreme court justice. Direct quote: "If we would have said three weeks ago […] that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they're coming out and they're saying it for us! They're coming out and they're saying, "I'm only here because of affirmative action." Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously. Kirk then played a clip of Jackson Lee speaking in Congress, saying she had been admitted to educational institutions on affirmative action. Kirk then went on to make his point again: "We know. We know. It's very obvious to us you are not smart enough to be able to get it on your own. "I could not make it on my own, so I needed to take opportunities from someone more deserving." That's not how Affirmative Action worked. It didn't take spots away from those more deserving, it took slots away from the mediocre old-white-boys club who only would have gotten in because they're a legacy. A black pilot is a pilot because he completed all the required training, not because of some quota. DEI DOESN'T HAVE QUOTAS. DEI is just about making sure that anyone qualified is able to apply and potentially win the position regardless of gender, sex, race, religion, sexuality, etc. So to wonder if United/Delta/American put a black pilot in the driver seat just because he was black and they needed to meet a quota is just plain racist. There's a pilot shortage anyway, so anyone who is white and qualified is going to be able to find a job if they want one. No. That's a cop-out "Well I don't agree with everything Mussolini did, but at least he made the trains run on time." Don't say you agree with some of the things a nazi says without being able to very strongly qualify it. He was a bigot against race, sexuality, gender, women, and more. So unless its "Well I agree with him that the sky is blue", you're probably better off just not agreeing with him on anything.

Nice fall weather in NE Ohio. Trees starting to turn. 70, sunny, had rain last night and yesterday after almost 2 months of dry weather. Taco Tuesday, heading out to the Mexican restaurant down the street…

How about a way to hide any post that mentions C.K. lol? Not the poster. Just the post. Just bringing him up non-stop over the last week is exactly what that con-man wants.

That's not what I meant - his white picket fence rhetoric isn't necessarily about candidates, but just about what the highest collective tier of "shoulds" in society are. He said he liked LDS folks and how they align with what he thinks. They spell it out fairly clearly that eternal blessings in the afterlife are achieved by having children through a temple sealed marriage and that's just another one of those "shoulds." That, too, is not for everyone and also judgmental. Kirk's delivery had a great deal of snideness in it. I went back and checked out 5 to 10 vids. I'm not a liberal, but I know what's right. And, comparatively speaking, we should all kiss the ground if elected Republicans in office were more like Liz Cheney and Kinzinger who have been sidelined. They'd get my vote.

I think you need to look deeper at this. He made his money, millions of it, by talking, so he has a natural desire to keep the conversation going. He was also incredibly disingenuous about it. It's all well and good to say we shouldn't build walls, but he was responsible for building or reinforcing most of them. This tweet is just rage bait designed to get the right wing angry at the gays, many of whom serve in the military. May is Military Appreciation month. So not only is he spreading bigotry, he's also spreading misinformation.... and he did that All. The. Time. When he got shot, he was in the process of trying to blame mass shootings on trans people. I frequently see people say that he was taken out of context, but when you go look up the entire context, what he's saying is even worse. You know what dead guy you don't have to ever explain context about? Mr. Rogers. Did you know he also kept a public list of professors who taught on subjects like feminism, LGBT issues, or even just American history that he didn't like? He posted these professors pictures and contact information on his website and turned his supporters loose on them flooding them with death threats, sending barrages of e-mail and phone calls to universities to get these professors fired, some of them even having to uproot their lives and move. Doesn't sound very in the spirit of "just keep talking" does it? Imagine having 100,000 people e-mail your boss saying you need to be fired in the worst terms possible. That's not very freedom of speechy of him. He spread Covid misinformation too, something which conservatives have been 100% wrong about on every angle of the subject for over 5 years now. His entire operation was grift. Getting people angry in order to extract money from them. Heck, his memorial service yesterday was selling Merch! His wife set up a gofundme even though they've been bringing in millions for years. So, while you feel you may have some alignment on his views, I would highly encourage you to find out what he was really about and the positions he took specifically to build the very walls he was claiming to want to pull down. But feel free to post a position he had that you agree with and I'll take a wack at it.

Here's a pic I took Sunday at my favorite local beach on Lake Erie...been up there the last two weekends...taking a folding chair and a floppy hat, sit and listen to the waves..very relaxing...dip my toes in the lake. One of my happy places where I can shut out the drama of the world.

Anyway, autumn is here (either today or yesterday) and I've got just another day of beach time in the south of Portugal before heading back ... routine and brief orthopedic type operation ... blech, or I would have been hanging my hat in Italy for a while. Thought I'd share this stunning photo from a Quebec calendar I picked up at a pharmacy in Montreal last year. This is the October 2025 photo. Makes me actually like colder weather and a good cup of hot tea.

I have ALWAYS said to take back your country. Fight for your country. BEFORE it becomes too late. Before it becomes violent. Gun violent... Take a listen to this lady. THIS is what we ALL need to do.

This was the first school shooting Republicans cared about. There was another school shooting within minutes and it barely made the news .

Ive posted enough videos where Charlie speaks since the day he got shot... Its snippets here and there but it really shows the piece of shyte he really was. Its up to enlightened people to actually listen for themselves. Not my snippets and not on somebody else's youtube channel. Charlie left quite a social media presence. And if one wants to learn to actual phoquing truth to how toxic he really was, its ALL there. If not...PHOQUE CHARLIE AND AND PHOQUE THE THE DEAF EARS ASSHATS THAT WILL NOT AND REFUSE TO ACTUALLY SEE THE REALITY!!! The latest shyte coming out from that shytty family is his shytty phoquing widow spewing hatred... I honestly do not know how a SANE person could NOT see the bullshyte and the hate???!!! Its up to enlightened people to search her up and what she said RIGHT AFTER he got shot and the bullshyte at his wake this past Sunday. Charlie was NOT a politician. He never held ANY public office and he was NEVER elected by the people for ANY public office job. He was at best an influencer on social media. He got money from far right money people to go to university campuses to preach far right extremist thoughts. He debated students. But HE...HE didnt really debate. He spewed lies CONFIDENTLY and pushed his agenda through intimidation tactics speaking over and loudly over the debaters that contradicted him. He was NOT an advocate to debate. To reason. To free speech and he definitely was not for both sides to sit down and talk. Only a phoquing fool sees that of Charlie!!! By this time next year, Charlie will have been forgotten just like Gingrich and Limbaugh before him... And the ignorant hatefull phoques will latch unto another blowhard far right asshat

I am not the biggest fan and follower of politics. I sort of woke up in 2016. However, I did find one short video with Kirk saying, 'If I'm getting on a plane and the pilot is Black, I hope he's had the proper training.' That's all I needed to hear. That might be something an insult comic would have had in their skit in 2005. That is not at all suitable for a political spokesperson and a world away from anything Christian ... and certainly not a person that should fill up a stadium in Arizona to be mourned.

I guess i didn't take it that way, but I could see how one would. I understand your point here. Are they independents? If so, they'd have my vote, too.

This pretty much is a very well calculated statement of the current administration has FAILED our country and economy.

I honestly just don't really care. I'm not about to convince you of anything nor do I feel like I should try. It's simply okay that we don't all align on everything. I didn't know who he was prior to his murder. The internet was just spammed with everything Kirk, so of course I saw videos and a majority of them was him saying we need to keep talking(along with the conversation at hand). That's what happens when you only hear a part of the quote or conversation.

No, it wasn't. It was about putting the best candidate in place rather than somebody just because of their skin color. i certainly don't want some white person to get a job just because they're white. The best qualified person should get the job.