The American Politics Thread

And it's all kicked off for Roger Stone! Arrested for obstruction.

https://news.sky.com/story/roger-stone-trump-ally-charged-with-witness-tampering-11617158

^ Read the definition again, intelligent and smart mean the same thing, you are misusing these words when you try to make them into words that are different from each other.


Edited by Easy Money - January 24 2019 at 07:15

npjnpj wrote: I don’t know that I agree here. Smart and intelligent are too different things, in fact intelligent people are often not very smart in the common sense of the word. And how are senators who have served in office for a decade or more not experienced pros?

You are using words that you don't even understand. Check the definition:

smart
/smärt/Submit
adjective
1.
INFORMAL
having or showing a quick-witted intelligence.
"if he was that smart he would never have been tricked"
synonyms:     clever, bright, intelligent, sharp, sharp-witted, quick-witted, nimble-witted, shrewd, astute, acute, apt, able; More

Are you really arguing semantics?  

Snicolette wrote: Very outdated and have been for years.  Anyone around here ever read (or seen) A Boy and His Dog?  The GOP has always reminded me of the parade in the story (and film).  Both a bit controversial....but I do love Harlan Ellison. That McConnell is just such a smug jerk.

I don't often check this thread, but I loved the film A Boy and His Dog. I should read more Harlan Ellison (he had issues with the film).

Many of them aren't dumb but they just have misguided and outdated values. For example they think if someone has a sex change operation(say they were born a male and transition to female both biologically and culturally) and live as a woman then they still should use the men's room because male is the gender they were born as. 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - January 23 2019 at 14:20

I find the thought of any smart experienced right-wing pro absolutely terrifying. The US senate is full of the buggers, and every time they open their mouths it gives me the creeps.


Edited by npjnpj - January 23 2019 at 03:36

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Snicolette wrote: Percentages probably waver with the source and when the study was done....we do know that there are plenty of homeless vets. Anyway, I see that you take my point. Lots of people forget Reagan did that....and there was that little Iran Contra thing, too. He was no saint, although it would seem that some think so I agree but I don't think he was as bad as George W. Bush especially with the whole Iraq war thing. Just my opinion though. Both(and all the others too for that matter)pale in comparison to what we have now though.

Snicolette wrote: Percentages probably waver with the source and when the study was done....we do know that there are plenty of homeless vets. Anyway, I see that you take my point. Lots of people forget Reagan did that....and there was that little Iran Contra thing, too. He was no saint, although it would seem that some think so