Re: The Politics of the Doomsday Clock

[A Friend]

In article <f9CdncaSBpxsMrD_...@giganews.com>, Ubiquitous
<web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> no...@noway.com wrote:
> > BTR1701 <atr...@mac.com> wrote:
> >> On Mar 11, 2022 at 7:32:02 PM PST, "A Friend" <no...@noway.com> wrote:
> >> > BTR1701 <atr...@mac.com> wrote:
> >> >> A Friend <no...@noway.com> wrote:
> >> >> > moviePig <pwal...@moviepig.com> wrote:
> >> >> > > On 3/11/2022 12:13 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>
> >> >> > >> And do you really think the corporate media would hold it to the
> >> >> > >> same esteem if the hands only moved during the reign of Democrat
> >> >> > >> presidents?
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > It's making headlines because people like you -- and now me --
> >> >> > > read
> >> >> > > them. Hence, this discussion, e.g. Your header sums it up.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > (I doubt you can cite real media calling the Clock "scientific".
> >> >> > > 'Six
> >> >> > > Minutes To Midnight' is a movie-title, designed to make pulses
> >> >> > > pound.)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > The Doomsday Clock is street theater. And for Christ's sake, the
> >> >> > hands
> >> >> > were moved to one minute to midnight following the 1962 Cuban missile
> >> >> > crisis. Now who was president then, and which party was he from?
> >> >>
> >> >> He'd certainly not be welcome in the Democrat Party today. He'd be a
> >> >> moderate Republican if he was around now.
> >> >>
> >> > That's another evasive non-answer.
> >>
> >> No, it was acknowledgement of his party affiliation and a comment on how
> >> that
> >> party has radically changed since the 1960s.
> >
> >
> >You asserted that the clock's hands had never been moved during a
> >Democratic administration. Your response was that JFK would be a
> >Republican today if he were around. Yes, his party has changed since
> >his time *because he helped change it*.
>
>
> TROLL-O-METER
>
> 5* 6* *7
> 4* *8
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> 2* *10
> 1* | *stuporous
> 0* -*- *catatonic
> * |\ *comatose
> * \ *clinical death
> * \ *biological death
> * _\/ *demonic apparition
> * * *damned for all eternity



Yes, I've been here quite a while and I know you have no argument to
make, so this troll-o-meter thing is what you do instead. What's fun
is that you have no idea how meaningless it's become or how useless it
makes you seem.