Ohio Barbarian

@ohiobarbarian

I’m not disagreeing with anything you’ve said here. I’m saying the typical American doesn’t do ethics at all, because they don’t even know what it means.

And corruption isn’t just a legal term. The US system is corrupted in many ways which are perfectly legal. What it really means, is simply undermining the integrity of an…[Read more]

..I have charged a few of them,@ohiobarbarian,but lately I have begun to think them not even worthy of one good growl.I could snarl their ears off and they wouldn’t listen to an alternate viewpoint anyway.They’re so damn sure of themselves!

@ohiobarbarian,It is almost deliberately ignorant of history and as self-righteous as any fundamentalist.

If they weren’t so damned highly moral about it all maybe you could stand them a little better,but their dour sanctimoniousness is disgusting.

In the early 2000 a group of political scientists got together to write essays and critique the field…Title of the book was ‘Perestroika’…..Back to political science – the field(s) of area studies have almost been eliminated…..which ends up with problems of how one can explain colonialism without area studies and the lens with which to…[Read more]

villain of the day.@ohiobarbarian.

@ohiobarbarian

You write:

Democrats didn’t even fight for Obama’s court picks, yet waved Trump’s through, with the exception of Kavanaugh….

In just a few words you manage two major factual errors.

Mitch McConnell wouldn’t let Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland even come to a vote. Democrats lambasted him for this tactic. What else shoul…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

Writing a book?  You have a unique sort of style in your writings – and from your descriptions I got a good mental image of what it might have looked like/been like.  Your style is somehow comforting to read.  Down to earth, no bull shit.

What is the minimum wage in Ohio now?  I think it is at 12 here in Maine – and I’ve been see…[Read more]

Jimmy is 56, that’s old now? How old are your friends?

The dumbest accusation against Jimmy was that since some people on the right watch his show, that makes him right wing.

@ohiobarbarian

I see you don’t even respond to the fact that a statute could be passed now. It could certainly have been passed back in 2009, but it was never even brought up. I submit that happened because they want to keep a fundraising issue.

I think you are right OB. They have had decades to get this issue fixed but both sides would rather use it as a p…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

It is an economic issue in that the impact of this law will fall on the poor and the middle class.  If some rich Texas legislator’s daughter gets pregnant, she will be spirited out of the state (or, if need be, out of the country) for a safe, clean abortion elsewhere, with no one being able to prove it happened.

It’s the women of…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

The problem is overloading of hospitals though, and it

has always been the main point. If the vaccine can reduce

that then people with kidney dialysis (as example) don’t

need to postpone their treatment. As usual the problem

comes down to timing and cost. Perhaps some of the Southern

States will give us a bit more information…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

You write:

The fact that your party allows corrupt people like Byrd and Sinema and Pelosi in it tells me all I need to know.

Robert Byrd died in 2010. Letting him rest in peace, I’ll move on to Sinema.

In 2018 there was an open U.S. Senate seat in Arizona (Jeff Flake was retiring). The candidates in the Democratic primary were…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

You write:

Are your precious Democrats going to extend the eviction moratorium by means of an Act of Congress?

I’m pretty sure an eviction moratorium would not survive a “Byrd bath” – the application of the Senate rules concerning contents of reconciliation bills. It would therefore be subject to filibuster. With every single R…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

The six Justices appointed by Republicans all voted to throw untold numbers of tenants out on the street.

The three Justices appointed by corrupt sellout corporatist Vichy Dems all dissented.

I sure hope all those newly homeless people don’t get the impression that there might be any significant differences between the two major…[Read more]

Just one more chapter, @ohiobarbarian of the saga of the capitalist war against any organizational system that prioritizes a healthy, educated population over the indulgence of greed.

@ohiobarbarian

Lockdown while people get vaccinated – offer significant incentive and many more will.  Even many of those “religiously opposed” would do for a thousand dollars.

As for dangerous… man, over 600 thousand dead in the U.S. – seems dangerous to me.  It is not even the deaths though that are the big danger.  It is overwhelming our in…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian,@djean111.

And I know what you mean about being tempted to vote for Trump,OB.I have never liked his demonizing of immigrants and still don’t,but like many 2016voters,I’m sorely tempted just to stick it to the damyuppies.

I didn’t hear a single “nay” so I’ll continue to post judiciously – and do my best to back up statements with facts.

@passionateprogressive @nvwino @pam2 @sffh @ohiobarbarian @sadoldgirl

@ohiobarbarian

Yeah, I’m not happy with him now, but some of the comments I was reading were saying he’s always been fake etc. and I don’t believe that.