OT the PIT - reincarnation

Let's see what the woke people on the left, who raked John Wayne over the coals for his prior statements, have to say about these comments from Biden:



Standing on the debate stage in Detroit last month, Joe Biden surveyed his fellow 2020 Democratic candidates and took the opportunity to aim a barb at President Trump: “This is America, and we are strong and great because of this diversity, Mr. President, not in spite of it."

As the 2020 Democratic front-runner and as vice president to Barack Obama, the first black occupant of the Oval Office, Biden, 76, has consistently championed America's diversity, arguing that its status as a "melting pot" is essential to its strength.

“America’s strength is and has always been rooted in our diversity,” said Biden on Twitter last month. In 2015, Biden opened a White House conference on terrorism by saying, “We are a nation of immigrants, and our strength is that we are a melting pot.”

But in 1976, Biden said the opposite and predicted the U.S. might split apart along sectarian lines.

Speaking at an annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Boise in February 1976, Biden said: ”I told you [in a previous speech] about my view that the uniqueness of America didn’t lie in the fact that we’re a great melting pot. We hear that all the time, about it being black and white, rich and poor, Christian and Jew — therefore we’re strong. I told you then, I thought that was a bunch of poppycock.

“The fact we are black and white doesn’t bring us together as a nation. The fact that we’re Christian and Jew doesn’t send us running into one another's embrace to herald our differences. The fact is that people fear differences. The fact that the reason this nation is able to be the most heterogeneous nation in the history of mankind is not because it’s a melting pot. It’s because unlike any other nation in the world, we are uniquely a product of our political institutions.

“If France tomorrow, for example, were to turn in a monarchy, I told you, I did not believe that France would substantively change. Because in France there’s an ethnicity that binds them together, a cultural tie. You don’t have that in America,” he added.

An audiotape of Biden's speech was obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Biden's comments underline his complicated history over race. In 1975, he embraced segregation, saying it was a matter of "black pride." He opposed busing as a means of desegregating schools. In June, he spoke wistfully of his friendship with segregationists in the Senate of the 1970s.

In the Idaho speech, he warned that the country might collapse before the year 2000 if politicians didn’t regain the trust of the American people. It was the year the U.S. celebrated its bicentennial but was still reeling from the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

"Just look around this country to see how different we are. Unless we get the American people from Delaware to Idaho, Massachusetts to California, believing that the political system can produce results for them, this country is going to spin apart like a gyroscope out of kilter,” said Biden.

“You were saying, ‘No, it can’t happen here, this is America, we’re unique, we are something different.’ Well, the Lord ain’t made a new brand of man in a long time. It can happen here, we can split apart, and we’re moving in the direction of doing just that.

“Without [the public’s] confidence, without their participation in the system, this nation will not see a tricentennial, this nation will not see the year 2000 in a way in which we now think it is composed."

The 1976 speech was not the only time Biden questioned the benefits of diversity. Speaking in New York that same year, Biden claimed diversity “drives us apart” as a society, according to contemporaneous news reports unearthed last month.

“We hear time and again that we are uniquely a melting pot. Because we’re black, white, rich and poor, therefore we’re strong,” said Biden. “The fact that we are black and white, rich and poor drives us apart in America,” he said.

WTF?

Canadians who had credit cards with Chase Bank can breathe a sigh of relief as the company says it will "forgive" all outstanding debt.

Chase Bank, part of the New York based JPMorgan Chase & Co., closed all credit card accounts in the country in March 2018, the company said.

Originally, customers were told to continue paying their debt, Reuters reported, but the company confirmed Friday to USA TODAY the debt was now cancelled.

"Chase made the decision to exit the Canadian credit card market. As part of that exit, all credit card accounts were closed on or before March 2018. A further business decision has been made to forgive all outstanding balances in order to complete the exit," Maria Martinez, vice president of communications for Chase Card Services, said in a statement.

Chase declined to say how much debt was forgiven or how many customers were affected. It wasn't immediately clear when the decision was made, but CBC spoke with some Canadians who said they received a letter from Chase this week.

"I was sort of over the moon all last night, with a smile on my face," Douglas Turner of Coe Hill, Ontario, told the Canadian broadcaster. Turner said he still owed more than $4,500 on his card. "I couldn't believe it."
The bank had offered two rewards cards – with Amazon and Marriott – in Canada, CBC reported.

"It's crazy," Turner added. "This stuff doesn't happen with credit cards. Credit cards are horror stories." The 55-year-old trucker also told CBC that his most recent payment on the account would also be reimbursed.

While the company could have sold the debt to a third party, Martinez said, "Ultimately, we felt it was a better decision for all parties, particularly our customer, to forgive the debt."

Paul Adamson, of Dundalk, Ontario, told CBC he called his bank when he saw the account was closed last week because he didn't want to miss a payment.

"I'm honestly still so ... flabbergasted about it," he said. "It's surprise fees, extra complications – things like that, definitely, but not loan forgiveness."

Christine Langlois, of Montreal, told CBC she stopped making payments on her card five years ago.

A 24-year-old university student, she said: "It's kind of like I'm being rewarded for my irresponsibility."

Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide this morning in his jail cell. Bill Clinton just dodged a bullet. Where's Hillary

You can't even tweet about it properly anymore.

Okay...sounds like it just tracks traffic violations...not a “background” check like they do for guns, which includes criminal arrests/convictions, restraining orders and mental health commitments for the states that actually report those. 

Russian history professor, in a Russian blog:

Such people they are - "left intellectuals". Sometimes you seem to see quite an intelligent person, spectacles and necktie, but with consciousness of one fat black woman, going bananas in front of a monument to General Lee. Actually, a "left intellectual" is an oxymoron. A leftist is in essence intellectually disabled, incapable to comprehend where everything comes from, who believes that the world should not be like it always was and can only be, but should be the way he wants to see it, also having decided that people like him can change it. The experience should tell us, that no forecasts or predictions of leftists are to be trusted, they never come true, and if something "like it" happens, it's not that, and it's not in the way they expected it and the way they promised it to their followers.

Thus not all academia has gone rotten, definitely. But, unfortunately, this one is in St. Petersburg, Russia, rather than St. Petersburg, Florida.

Celebrate diversity!

www.yahoo.com/news/chase-shuts-down-sb-405-030542542.html

Chicago? I hope you have your conceal carry with you

I always carry when I’m with any of my family these days...I did bring an extra mag this trip though

As an attorney I used to work with said before concealed weapons permits existed around here "I would rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6."

“Punk-ass bitches from the right call me Fredo,” Cuomo told the man, who claimed he thought the CNN anchor was named Fredo. “My name is Chris Cuomo. I’m an anchor on CNN. Fredo is from The Godfather.”

“They use it as an Italian aspersion. Any of you Italian?” Cuomo continued. “It’s an insult to your fucking people. It’s like the N-word for us.”


I'm Italian and this is the first time I've heard of Fredo being used as a derogatory term