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We need to bring back the Presidential Fitness Test requirement for graduating high school. It would help reduce obesity and the pissant opposition to it would be whining about fat acceptance, white supremacy, and so on - as if being in good physical condition is reserved for whites.

Edit: fuck, @curbside2 ninja'd me
 
Herbert Hoover (who, in his defense, experienced an unprecedented economic disaster, but his ardent refusal to intervene ultimately made things much worse than they could have been).

The claim that Hoover did nothing is a lie. It's not an alternative interpretation; it is literally a lie. Hoover began trying to intervene immediately to prevent a market correction, subsidize failing industries, and public works projects (a certain dam on the Colorado River being the most famous example), all the things that FDR would do later. Really, the only thing he didn't do that FDR did was implement price controls. The fact his interventions weren't working is part of why FDR's campaign, which promised to balance the budget and cut taxes, helped him win the White House.

Once in the White House, of course, FDR neither balanced the budget nor cut taxes.
He doubled down on Hoover's policies and added price controls and asset destruction. 8 years later, he needed a reason why nothing was working. So he just started absolutely bullshitting about the situation, claiming that Hoover didn't do anything at all, and that by not doing anything for three years, Hoover had made the situation so impossibly bad that his New Deal just needed even more time to work.

The only President in the post-Federal Reserve era who did nothing after a massive crash was Calvin Coolidge. The 1920-21 depression was the deepest economic crash in our nation's history, deeper than 1929. The fallout lasted all of 18 months.

Markets correct really, really fast when you leave them alone.
 
I've been waiting for this. After the exodus caused by the Catholic pedo scandals they've tried their best to refill those seats preaching the illegal immigrant gospel. It's a huge cash cow that they'll fight to protect no matter how ridiculous the argument.
Am I the only person who thinks the Catholic Church may have gotten fucked with the pedo scandals? The other side of the story that I've heard was that the Catholic Church leadership in the US had no clue what to do or how to handle the pedophiles in their ranks. So, they consulted lawyers who told them to conceal, to move pedophiles around, and to deny, deny, deny. Then the story went public in a way that was impossible to deny anymore and the cover up became a bigger scandal than the original crimes, which were bad enough.

I'm not trying to defend the Catholic Church here - I am not a Catholic - but I wonder if the above information comports with anyone else's understanding. From my perspective, it seems that church leadership panicked, made a dumb decision by listening to lawyers, and then got hammered by atheists who have a conniption when you point out that your child is far more likely to get molested by public school teachers than a member of the clergy.
 
Am I the only person who thinks the Catholic Church may have gotten fucked with the pedo scandals? The other side of the story that I've heard was that the Catholic Church leadership in the US had no clue what to do or how to handle the pedophiles in their ranks. So, they consulted lawyers who told them to conceal, to move pedophiles around, and to deny, deny, deny. Then the story went public in a way that was impossible to deny anymore and the cover up became a bigger scandal than the original crimes, which were bad enough.

I'm not trying to defend the Catholic Church here - I am not a Catholic - but I wonder if the above information comports with anyone else's understanding. From my perspective, it seems that church leadership panicked, made a dumb decision by listening to lawyers, and then got hammered by atheists who have a conniption when you point out that your child is far more likely to get molested by public school teachers than a member of the clergy.
Were the lawyers Jewish?
 
It's bad enough he's borderline vegetable, he uses a fucking Jeep too, a waste as big as USAID.
I've said it before and I'll say it again for the fags in the back, but Deep State, when you force your puppets to come out on stretchers and in wheelchairs and boots, any young person who sees that is going to get out of the game before they end up like that. Why haven't you figured this out yet? You faggots have nobody to replace you. They're literally all retarded.
 
Am I the only person who thinks the Catholic Church may have gotten fucked with the pedo scandals? The other side of the story that I've heard was that the Catholic Church leadership in the US had no clue what to do or how to handle the pedophiles in their ranks. So, they consulted lawyers who told them to conceal, to move pedophiles around, and to deny, deny, deny. Then the story went public in a way that was impossible to deny anymore and the cover up became a bigger scandal than the original crimes, which were bad enough.
Well I mean, they fucked kids at a lower rate than public school teachers, and teachers are taxpayer funded and have a union
 
Am I the only person who thinks the Catholic Church may have gotten fucked with the pedo scandals? The other side of the story that I've heard was that the Catholic Church leadership in the US had no clue what to do or how to handle the pedophiles in their ranks. So, they consulted lawyers who told them to conceal, to move pedophiles around, and to deny, deny, deny. Then the story went public in a way that was impossible to deny anymore and the cover up became a bigger scandal than the original crimes, which were bad enough.

I'm not trying to defend the Catholic Church here - I am not a Catholic - but I wonder if the above information comports with anyone else's understanding. From my perspective, it seems that church leadership panicked, made a dumb decision by listening to lawyers, and then got hammered by atheists who have a conniption when you point out that your child is far more likely to get molested by public school teachers than a member of the clergy.
Churches should be held to a higher standard than anyone else. The prudent thing to do would have been to take the reputational hit up front any time a pedo was found making it known that pedos in the church would be dealt with severely and turned over to law enforcement.

Instead the Catholic church put their institution's reputation over the innocence of children. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
 
Were the lawyers Jewish?
I honestly have no clue.
Well I mean, they fucked kids at a lower rate than public school teachers, and teachers are taxpayer funded and have a union
Unions do protect a lot of pedophiles.
Churches should be held to a higher standard than anyone else. The prudent thing to do would have been to take the reputational hit up front any time a pedo was found making it known that pedos in the church would be dealt with severely and turned over to law enforcement.

Instead the Catholic church put their institution's reputation over the innocence of children. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
I agree with you 100%. Maybe a problem with this was that the offenders confessed to another priest and it would violate the sanctity of confessions to turn them in? I don't know the nitty gritty here. All that's ever talked about in spades is how the evil Catholic Church defended pedophiles and boyfucking and that's why God doesn't exist and you should join your local Antifa chapter run by troons.
Is water wet?
I know this is the goof, but there really are a fuckton of powerful, successful, non-Jewish lawyers.
 
I agree with you 100%. Maybe a problem with this was that the offenders confessed to another priest and it would violate the sanctity of confessions to turn them in? I don't know the nitty gritty here. All that's ever talked about in spades is how the evil Catholic Church defended pedophiles and boyfucking and that's why God doesn't exist and you should join your local Antifa chapter run by troons.
They simply thought they could get away with it and that they were like an "independent" institution with its own rules and, for a while, they were, until it got too big to contain.
 
Am I the only person who thinks the Catholic Church may have gotten fucked with the pedo scandals
yes you are, because if you do even the smallest bit of digging you can watch different levels of catholic leadership continually pass the buck for pedophiles. when you have a priest who gets moved across the entire country in the 80s and they still get complaints, that's a problem. you shouldn't just excommunicate him, you should also at that point cooperate with law enforcement. the catholics have at every turn fought as hard as they could against actually addressing the problems their church has with pedophilia, and i promise you it is not within christ's belief to allow children to suffer. matthew 18:1-9

The claim that Hoover did nothing is a lie.
FDR basically rewrote american history to his whim, whenever it suited him, and such was his charisma and effective command over the populace that people still believe the bold-faced outright lies he told constituents for almost 2 decades.

people don't even remember hoovervilles anymore, which were named after the president of their time, and were built in the places where all those work projects hoover wanted to get going would be at. easy to see how FDR swooped in and used them to snatch up the laboring worker's vote by claiming it was all his idea later.

Well I mean, they fucked kids at a lower rate than public school teachers, and teachers are taxpayer funded and have a union
i've often pondered on what to do about this and the only solution i've ever come up with is to make all processes involved in public education transparent to the point of being nearly unobstructed for confirmed parents of children to be involved in their schooling.
 
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