what do you think (many) museums are, other than thieves? You think all that gorgeous Egyptian stuff that is sitting in various museums around the world got there on its own? And repeat for basically everything.

I highly doubt such item would survive in an abandoned building for 20 years. It would either be damaged beyond repair or most likely stolen and sold for parts.

Face it; you all are dialed in with the puns. Still, nice to see that no one was unnecessarily alarmed by this clock theft.

Detroit was considering selling off its art museum holdings. I’m gonna give a slight edge to clock thief here.

Clearly that is not a regular thief, but an antique specialist. The person kept the clock for 20 years and cared for it. That’s better than any museum.

I liked the one about modern art being decadent and not worthy of being called art. I’ve heard that argument before in newsreels.

I love the last sentence in that quote: “We’re always going to be behind because the left controls higher education. They control 2,100 platforms of learning.”

That’s because they know that, over the course of time, their belief system will die out. Trump is an anomaly, a last-gasp effort to maintain some semblance of a political ideology. But liberals/the left will triumph in the end, and demographics will shift enough to ensure Dem majorities (especially if gerrymandering…

I absolutely agree with you, but don’t forget the one thing that trumps (groan) any and all political and ideological values: Money.

Amway IS the least of it. She and her family own one of the most abusive student loan “banks” - known for ruthless collections practices (often on loans sold to uninformed students at useless (but expensive) vocational colleges, some of which have been closed down by states for not providing worthwhile or adequate…

I am sick to fucking death of these dumb cunts - who have all the privilege and power they could possibly want - whining about “not being heard.” Fuck off, the lot of you.

what impressed me was the landing followed quickly by a direction change. very nice

What’s the phrase? “To the privileged, equality feels like persecution.”

What saddens me the most? They’ll breed. They’ll hook up with some ‘never paid attention in class; bullied others; daddy got me my job; scumbag’ and they’ll raise the most annoying set of entitled brats this side of Stepford

Yes, absolutely. The White Man’s Burden and Manifest Destiny is baked right in.

You’ve hit the nail on its head, and this deployment of manufactured persecution complex has been Trump’s one real skill. He’s been masterfully employing the persecution myth (regarding both himself and his cultists) for two years. He whines about voter fraud and “Democratic cheating” (as if he’d lost the election);…

The cognitive dissonance comes from the persecution myth central to Evangelical Christianity. It fetishizes martyrs and considers “spiritual warfare” to be a literal thing that actually happens. They believe they are persecuted for their faith not only when they don’t get their way, exactly, but also whenever they…

Drumpf has this half-cocked idea that if we get rid of those pesky foreign cars that the US makers will magically come roaring back and reopen factories in Flint and Mahwah and everyplace else. He’s got the mind of a three year old filled with the bullshit of a 1928 plutocrat and it’s all driven by the emotions of a…

The Trail of Tears

But separating kids from their parents and locking them in dog cages? That’s cool.