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"Bob" - I'm under no illusion that it makes any sense to attempt to debate someone living in a world of delusional thinking. You are a demonstrable chronic liar. Also, putting false dialog in someone else's mouth is disrespectful and just another way of telling an untruth. That is indicative of character, in your case lack of.

I will stick around to point out your more egregious falsehoods whenever I have time. It's just so easy.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 3:59 pm By: Van Zant

JS- your response only re-enforces my argument. When the source of information becomes more important than the information itself, something is wrong.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 2:21 pm By: Big Bob

I do not remember ever seeing Newsmax or Fakebook cited or linked on the BO, and I could probably count the tiny number of times I have seen Fox cited on one hand.

Bobbie's positions, on the other hand, could be easily found at Think Progress, the left's Talking Points Memo, or even the Daily Worker. He is way off the left side of the spectrum.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 2:08 pm By: John Steed

There Little Bobbie goes again with his Common Core math. Before, he claimed Jim Crow lasted 120 years, and now he is down at least to 100, but the correct factual answer is about 60 years. Jim Crow laws came in around the turn of the century across the south. North Carolina adopted its first one in the 1899 legislative session but most of them were in the 1901 session.

Those laws were motivated by the Democrats trying to regain control in some states or maintain control in others as white small farmers abandoned the Democrats in the mid 1890s over a feeling that the Democrats were the party of the wealthy special interests (hmmm, a lot like today) and abandoned it for the new Populist Party. The Populists then ran a fusion campaign with the Republicans. The Democrats responded with a white supremacy strategy to divid those white small farmers from the Republicans, and keyed in on the fact that most blacks of that era voted Republican. The Democrats did not wake up one morning and decide they hated blacks. Instead, it was a matter of political strategy to recapture the white small farmer vote from the Populists who were allied to the Republicans.

I do not condone what the Democrats did. My own party, the Republicans voted against all those Jim Crow laws when the Democrats put them through the legislature and I would have joined them if I were living in those times. But I do recognize that rather than being inherently racist, the Democrats of that period decided that pushing racism and white supremacy was a winning political strategy for them to recapture the white farmer vote they had lost to the Populists. There cynical use of the race card in those times for political purposes is as evil as the way the Democrats do it now with DEI.

The looting, arson, rape, and murder of white and black Southern civilians by Sherman, Sheridan, and Stoneman, not only violated the Geneva Convention of 1863 but also violated the Common Law of War as those officers and others had been taught at West Point. Sherman's idea of "total war" was not much different from the Serbs in Bosnia. What Sherman did was a war crime by today's standards and also by the standards of his own period.

FIghting for southern indepdence was NOT a sin, but vicious attacks on our history IS totalitarian.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 1:49 pm By: Conservative Voter

I get that trumps an idiot.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 12:06 pm By: Big Bob

Nobody in their right mind would have any respect at all for the crooked New York courts.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 11:45 am By: Bubba

if you cant respect the system when you lose, there is something very wrong.
MAGA - they even shoot their dogs

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 10:00 am By: Big Bob

Really? How many free blacks in antebellum south again? That's just one example of many. You have no credibility, BB.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 10:02 am By: Van Zant

The quality of "justice" in New York is substantially below that of most Third World countries. It is clearly a state full of kangaroo courts run by thoroughly corrupt judges.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:44 am By: Rino Hunter

Absolutely not. Some posts on this site are absolute BS. I call them out. If Im not sure or there is some truth in the post I let it go.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:20 am By: Big Bob

Yep. Some folks do say some crazy stuff. The BB entity says a lot of stuff that is ridiculously untrue all the time.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:27 am By: Van Zant

With Biden's politics, I am surprised that they were not replaced with pictures of Benedict Arnold or perhaps Karl Marx.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 7:00 am By: Bubba