What is the correct term for someone that makes disparaging remarks about a particular nationality?
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I’m sure some of them eat other things.
Josh Hawley writing a book should count as “saying”. Reviews haven’t been friendly.
Per Huffpost (some snips; all reviews in Huffpost, source of reviews not all indicated here)
wow, 57 people actually read it
Henry McMaster R Gov SC repeating one of his favorite GOP lines: “I look forward to the day that democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs.”
US political discourse is soooooo different from other countries: it is often entertaining but disturbing at the same time. I guess the trick is not to take politicians’ comments seriously, which is easy to do.
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It’s hard not to take seriously when you consider that millions of Americans agree completely.
The UK is giving them a run for their money.
We have some truly batshit MPs now.
My transition from a childhood Republican to a modern liberal started when a Christian church elder said, during a (camping trip) church service, we should pull all Christians out of the Middle East and nuke everybody else.
I believe this counts as a Republican darndest thing. Nobody spoke up. I was probably 13. Today I would have rioted. That is when I began asking questions, and shortly after one of my best friends came out as gay, and it all fell apart. I realized that Satan did not put dinosaur bones around to trick us and started really thinking about this God fella.
Yeah, I went to parochial schools.
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I think there have always been bat-
politicians in most legislative bodies.
What has changed is the media attention they attract, and the extent to which their constituencies support and/or ridicule them (and I think the two are correlated).
A couple of prior lives ago, I did a rotation that included giving actuarial support to my then-employer’s government relations team. They realized that I could do a good job of being the absent-minded professor type person they set in front of legislators (albeit with a handler) when “difficult” questions needed to be answered.
It was a very interesting experience…but it also inflated my cynicism towards the politicians.
So Satan is the evil one right?
Depends on your perspective, but I don’t believe in either deity, sooo…
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I’m not enough of an edgelord to vigorously debate that Satan might have been the good guy 
It should be its own side thread anyway to not clutter here.
However if I believed in the Christian God/fallen angel, I would lean that way.
Thankfully the dominant Canadian media are centrist and the political dingbats get called out or ignored by the media here when they say stupid things. The respective Party leaders are also pretty good about putting down or disciplining the racist/stupid elements in their parties. And fortunately we have no Fox-type news network giving dingbats a forum.
Wait, what? This is a thing?
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I’ve heard the theory but I don’t know how many people take it seriously. I think the thought is along the lines of ‘the earth is only ~6,000 years old, and God put these bones here to test us,’ or something like that.
Heard a similar argument once regarding the grand canyon. It was created to look really old but it’s really not, also some kind of test or something.
Sure, you do you.
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