Besides being a general warmonger, he was a primary cheerleader for the Iraq War. About a year before the US entered Iraq, he wanted to go to war with Cuba for WMDs they didn't have. He stood for about everything bad in Bush's foreign policy.
2025-08-26 06:15:18
It's hard to have much sympathy for John Bolton. After his role in the Bush administration, he should have been pushed into obscurity and never heard from again.
2025-08-24 19:19:55
And yet, you have somehow absorbed his talking points and have brought them here to share with all of us.
He can't be wrong about everything all the time... :)
2025-08-24 18:49:19
Gotta cite? Either way, "activists" don't sound like people weilding sanctioned government power.
These days, telling the difference can be difficult. Gotta cite?
Here's a list of books. Arguments can be made about which books for which student age ranges, if at all. Controversial Books in US Schools
2025-08-24 17:49:19
This is a mad Vance trope.
I don't listen to Vance and care very little about anything he has to say. Here's hoping that in 2028, there are better candidates for president than Vance and the possible Republican and Democratic candidates I know about. PA recently did tens of millions of pounds worth of damage when they broke into an RAF base and sprayed gallons of paint on planes and into their engines.
They had to work hard to overcome the two-tier policing.
2025-08-24 15:16:47
Is there a playbook for this, because it’s the same tired thing I’ve seen too many times?
There are activists on the left bringing books into schools that are, at best, not age-appropriate or shouldn't be in schools at all. Then there are the idiots on the right who want to ban any book that slightly offends them.
2025-08-24 15:07:39
ICE is currently arresting tens of thousands of people a month. Perhaps they are all extraordinary.
You're right. I was thinking about free speech problems in the UK.
The ICE is arresting and deporting far too many low-priority illegal immigrants. The UK is arresting and deporting far too few high-priority ones. Trump promised to deport criminals. Then set quotas so high that ICE and other LE started grabbing anyone they could lay their hands on.
Hopefully, future presidents will be averse to doing anything that can be called Trump-like.
2025-08-24 14:23:46
Worried though we are by much of it, I can't think of a single thing which compares in any way with what is happening in the States.
From here, democracy in the UK isn't looking so great either. Here, as far as I know, hundreds of ordinary people are not being arrested, and some are spending time in prison for participating in peaceful protests or for things they posted on X or other social media platforms. Charles, your LLMs are (not for the first time) letting you down badly.
The LLMs often seem to lean left. Or perhaps you have been paying too much attention to e.g Vance and co.
My sentiment is more of "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right of me..." I intensely dislike the public faces of both the left and the right in the US. I see that in at least 65 US school districts, among the banned books is The Handmaid's Tale.
Removing books from school libraries isn't the same as banning them. They're still available for anyone who wants them. They may even benefit from the Streisand effect. Your "facetiousness" does nothing but parrot the idiotic, ignorant and dangerous talking points of the people who are driving your country's democracy to its destruction.
My "facetiousness" is based on what I'm hearing from UK citizens.
2025-08-24 00:12:42
I feel like you are thinking of countries in the neighborhood of Israel...
I was being facetious about the UK's growing Islamic immigrant population.
2025-08-23 20:44:34
I'm assuming this is a joke, Charles. If not, do expound.
I was being a bit facetious. However, the US isn't the only Western country with numerous political and social problems. Other countries, including the UK, have their own sets of often overlapping problems.
2025-08-23 18:39:36
If any readers here need some help when you emigrate to England, let me know.
I don't think I want to live in an Islamic country...
Besides being a general warmonger, he was a primary cheerleader for the Iraq War. About a year before the US entered Iraq, he wanted to go to war with Cuba for WMDs they didn't have. He stood for about everything bad in Bush's foreign policy.
It's hard to have much sympathy for John Bolton. After his role in the Bush administration, he should have been pushed into obscurity and never heard from again.
And yet, you have somehow absorbed his talking points and have brought them here to share with all of us.
He can't be wrong about everything all the time... :)
Gotta cite? Either way, "activists" don't sound like people weilding sanctioned government power.
These days, telling the difference can be difficult.
Gotta cite?
Here's a list of books. Arguments can be made about which books for which student age ranges, if at all.
Controversial Books in US Schools
This is a mad Vance trope.
I don't listen to Vance and care very little about anything he has to say. Here's hoping that in 2028, there are better candidates for president than Vance and the possible Republican and Democratic candidates I know about.
PA recently did tens of millions of pounds worth of damage when they broke into an RAF base and sprayed gallons of paint on planes and into their engines.
They had to work hard to overcome the two-tier policing.
Is there a playbook for this, because it’s the same tired thing I’ve seen too many times?
There are activists on the left bringing books into schools that are, at best, not age-appropriate or shouldn't be in schools at all. Then there are the idiots on the right who want to ban any book that slightly offends them.
ICE is currently arresting tens of thousands of people a month. Perhaps they are all extraordinary.
You're right. I was thinking about free speech problems in the UK.
The ICE is arresting and deporting far too many low-priority illegal immigrants. The UK is arresting and deporting far too few high-priority ones. Trump promised to deport criminals. Then set quotas so high that ICE and other LE started grabbing anyone they could lay their hands on.
Hopefully, future presidents will be averse to doing anything that can be called Trump-like.
Worried though we are by much of it, I can't think of a single thing which compares in any way with what is happening in the States.
From here, democracy in the UK isn't looking so great either. Here, as far as I know, hundreds of ordinary people are not being arrested, and some are spending time in prison for participating in peaceful protests or for things they posted on X or other social media platforms.
Charles, your LLMs are (not for the first time) letting you down badly.
The LLMs often seem to lean left.
Or perhaps you have been paying too much attention to e.g Vance and co.
My sentiment is more of "Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right of me..." I intensely dislike the public faces of both the left and the right in the US.
I see that in at least 65 US school districts, among the banned books is The Handmaid's Tale.
Removing books from school libraries isn't the same as banning them. They're still available for anyone who wants them. They may even benefit from the Streisand effect.
Your "facetiousness" does nothing but parrot the idiotic, ignorant and dangerous talking points of the people who are driving your country's democracy to its destruction.
My "facetiousness" is based on what I'm hearing from UK citizens.
I feel like you are thinking of countries in the neighborhood of Israel...
I was being facetious about the UK's growing Islamic immigrant population.
I'm assuming this is a joke, Charles. If not, do expound.
I was being a bit facetious. However, the US isn't the only Western country with numerous political and social problems. Other countries, including the UK, have their own sets of often overlapping problems.
If any readers here need some help when you emigrate to England, let me know.
I don't think I want to live in an Islamic country...