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...actually, the most deserving of disrespectHe's the least respectable president ever.
...actually, the most deserving of disrespectHe's the least respectable president ever.
I guess you have the philosophical question... can you actually 'disrespect' someone who actually deserves it?Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I AM THE MOST DISRESPECTED PRESIDENT EVER!!!
As a living organism he is capable of converting chemical energy into waste heat.there is nothing you could respect Trump for
I moved to a town that has 90% of day-to-day things I need within a 10 minute walk, larger town 5 minutes away by bus and the big retail park 15(ish) minutes away on the bus and it's freakin' marvellous.In the Uk when we talk about "walkable" cities we are including the suburbs in that - in other words there is a good public transport to take us into the heart of the cities from the suburbs or we could walk a couple of miles if we wanted to get into the city. In the USA even the suburbs are seemingly designed around needing a car.
The "dis" part of the word is a bit problematic, but I think yes, because we know what respect is, at least in the abstract. It's true that "dis" usually refers to a change from a previous state, but I think it can also mean a difference from a desired state. We can disagree never having agreed, because agreement is the subject of the discussion, and we know what it is.I guess you have the philosophical question... can you actually 'disrespect' someone who actually deserves it?
I mean, nobody (at least not who's a member of the Trump administration) respect hitler. Nobody respects ted bundy or Charles Manson. But they seem to be the type of people who deserve scorn.
By contrast, my brother in law lives in the greater Augusta, GA area. His neighborhood has no sidewalks. Most of the area is gated communities, few of which have convenient walking even inside. There are some bike paths, if you can get to them, but they do not function for transportation to useful places. This is an "edge city," with an old downtown, which is pretty walkable, but a huge outlying horizontal city, where walking is nearly impossible, even from one shopping mall to an adjacent one. To cross the street is a challenge.I moved to a town that has 90% of day-to-day things I need within a 10 minute walk, larger town 5 minutes away by bus and the big retail park 15(ish) minutes away on the bus and it's freakin' marvellous.
Maybe we learn soon if Israel indeed has the naughty tapes or not ..Dumocrats
Mutilation
DEVINE: What do you say to people who claim Bibi Netanyahu tricked you into going into Iran?
TRUMP: They're just the enemy. They're dumocrats. They want transgender mutilization of our children. He tricked me? I'm the one that started it. I'll tell you what -- if there wasn't me, there would be no Israel right now
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The lyingest liar that ever lied.Trump: "Look, we had a rigged election. We can't have a rigged election. It's been proven to be rigged. Biden lost in a landslide."
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Scott Pelley, the veteran CBS News correspondent fired this week after publicly accusing network leadership of "murdering" 60 Minutes, issued a formal statement Tuesday night detailing what he says drove him out — and the allegations are specific.
"New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story," Pelley wrote. "I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them."
Pelley said the demands didn't stop there. Politicians, he wrote, had been invited to select which correspondents would conduct their interviews — a practice he called incompatible with basic journalistic standards. And he revealed that mismanagement had nearly killed an episode outright: the broadcast came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
The statement named a culprit. The new owner of CBS, Pelley wrote, was dismantling the most successful program in television history "apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration."
As Raw Story reported Tuesday, Pelley was fired after confronting CBS News leadership in a staff meeting and accusing them of murdering the program. In his termination letter, CBS Executive Producer Nick Bilton said Pelley was dismissed "for cause" — a designation Pelley can challenge in court.
His new statement made clear he views the firing as part of a broader collapse. Senior leadership and two correspondents had already been cut before he was shown the door, he said, and "good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience."