Recent content by pelleas

Or maybe they just didn't feel like answering his texts.

The British sources I usually follow have nothing good to say about Trump. I think the EU is maybe not the best place to find non-Trump-sceptics, outside the EU hard right -- have you heard different?

It does seem as though there is a well-established groove in his brain, entrenched over fifteen years or so: need electability? Need to boost poll numbers? Failing at negotiations and need to change the narrative? Attack Iran. It's as if this is what Iran symbolises to him: a way out.

The difficulty here is not with what Homan says. It sounds fantastic. The difficulty is whether or not he's telling the truth. If I could trust what this government says about itself, that would go a really long way toward being able to trust the direction it is leading the country. But by...

One wonders how Houston scored a field goal with -4 yards of offense.

Not our most rational reactions, friends. Reading through about half this thread has me a little sad and bewildered, and not about the team. It's a good Oklahoma team. Good predictors estimated that we'd be 8-2 right about now, and that that would be a successful season and position us well...

Yes, or, to put it another way, perhaps the losses weren't the cause of his firing, but the effects of the deeper problems that led to his firing.

Good, thanks. So Trump is the most recent human face on the Jeffersonian law that government erodes liberty, and our main hope that that law could be resisted would be convinced and knowledgeable republican ideologues firmly in political power but devoted to conceding power back to their...

Thanks. All this is very helpful. Thanks to all who are contributing, actually, to this particular discussion of whether Trump is Fascist or not. Not being a political scientist, I find the issue both important and confusing. Tidewater, would you be prepared to say that the Trump...

Well, most colleges are pretty highly politicized. I've learned in four and taught in four (secular and Christian). It isn't just about "different perspectives" and "free thought." There isn't a value-neutral stance from which to view perspectives and thought -- that's what post-modernism...

So, basically, 88% of the US population

I found out about him just last week.

Hey, now.

Littles always were more important than college football. Congratulations for being able to feel the truth, now.

I have been thinking about this message, particularly its second paragraph about reading Trump negatively no matter what he does. I understand your point, but I also think that reading Trump negatively no matter what he does is defensible, and that is interesting to consider. If we believe...