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Tim Kaine nailed it (Original Post) Clash City Rocker Sep 2021 OP
K & R...for truth...nt Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #1
That's my senator! Jilly_in_VA Sep 2021 #2
Mine, as well. Tim is a good man! 11 Bravo Sep 2021 #5
Yes. Me too. underpants Sep 2021 #20
Mike. Drop. AwakeAtLast Sep 2021 #3
Sigh. If only he had shown a bit of that spunk back when. UTUSN Sep 2021 #4
When would that have been? StarfishSaver Sep 2021 #10
My first pick for reference would be when he was our veep candidate. My allowable opinion. UTUSN Sep 2021 #12
Do you think that would have made much of a difference? StarfishSaver Sep 2021 #13
Yeah, a veep candidate usually fires things up. What is it about my opinion that is so radical? UTUSN Sep 2021 #14
For someone proclaiming a right to have an opinion, this is a pretty odd and over-the-top response StarfishSaver Sep 2021 #17
He did. LanternWaste Sep 2021 #16
No shit, as if we ever cared to see what that culture was before we go involved. nt AndyS Sep 2021 #6
When we send our military; it's to kill Captain Zero Sep 2021 #26
Well said PatSeg Sep 2021 #7
Who it is Icanthinkformyself Sep 2021 #8
Except that's not entirely true. There are plenty of 3rd party littlemissmartypants Sep 2021 #11
So true. Thank you, Tim Kaine. crickets Sep 2021 #9
I read a book detailing the breakdown of civilized bahavior in the Balkans DBoon Sep 2021 #15
This is terrible. It paints the 70% as the problem. zaj Sep 2021 #18
that is some pretzel logic right there Skittles Sep 2021 #19
no JI7 Sep 2021 #22
No it doesn't. Elessar Zappa Sep 2021 #24
K&R smirkymonkey Sep 2021 #21
K&R MustLoveBeagles Sep 2021 #23
The US has lost its moral high ground. 30% of the population have made a mockery of our democracy. Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #25

UTUSN

(70,649 posts)
14. Yeah, a veep candidate usually fires things up. What is it about my opinion that is so radical?
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 05:48 PM
Sep 2021

Really, I'm missing something, about what the point of contention is, the game, the rules of the game - things like that.

I have nothing else here except to assert my privilege to have an opinion like anybody else. Nothing else meaning nothing else.






 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
17. For someone proclaiming a right to have an opinion, this is a pretty odd and over-the-top response
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 07:36 PM
Sep 2021

to being asked what that opinion is.

Oh, well ...

Captain Zero

(6,785 posts)
26. When we send our military; it's to kill
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 11:29 AM
Sep 2021

Not to understand and determine options.

That would be the job of the PEACE CORPS, right ?

Which has been dissolved over the years since JFK instituted it.

Icanthinkformyself

(217 posts)
8. Who it is
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 04:14 PM
Sep 2021

Thank you, Senator Kaine. May I make a small request? Next time tell the other 70% of Americans just who those 30% are, Republicans .

littlemissmartypants

(22,592 posts)
11. Except that's not entirely true. There are plenty of 3rd party
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 05:24 PM
Sep 2021

Teabaggers, libertarians, greens and their ilk that make up that cohort.

crickets

(25,952 posts)
9. So true. Thank you, Tim Kaine.
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 05:13 PM
Sep 2021

Great response:




Justin Jaws 44 (@House building) @44Jaworski
Replying to @therecount

That's the basic truth right there. We have our hands full getting our own house in order. And really, the best thing we can do for the rest of the world is improve the U.S., and the residual effects will do more positive than any of our military occupations will do.

1:56 PM · Sep 14, 2021

DBoon

(22,340 posts)
15. I read a book detailing the breakdown of civilized bahavior in the Balkans
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 06:37 PM
Sep 2021

after the breakup of Yugoslavia.

It was written by a journalist who lived through it.

His conclusion is that about 30% of the population would willingly commit atrocities if released from the constraints of society.

Irish_Dem

(46,548 posts)
25. The US has lost its moral high ground. 30% of the population have made a mockery of our democracy.
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 10:29 AM
Sep 2021

And our cherished value of freedom.

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