Churchill was cool under fire and a competent battalion commander in the First World War.On the other hand he engineered the Dardanelles Campaign which was a costly fiasco.He was not a good judge of military talent, notably Admiral Beatty who was incompetent and cost the Royal Navy a lot ships and sailors.

As a kid, I was extremely fond of Churchill’s multi-volume history of WW2. Extremely well written, but as I learned later, largely inaccurate. Throughout his life Churchill thought big and out of the box. It often came back to bite him...and lots of people under his command.

I agree with most of your assessment of Churchill. By the standards of his class he was rather accepting of Jews. He

Guilt by association is your brother commits a crime and you are guilty because he is your brother.

Oh, I see your problem... you're simply ignorant.

Those deaths and suffering are direct results of big money controlling our political process and Biden has been taking individual actions to perpetuate and take advantage of the problem.

Nope. ALL the deaths are directly your fault due to the fact that you suck at political activism. If you weren't so terrible bad at your responsibility, ALL of those people would still be alive. Murderer.

Four years of Trump is not enough for you to realize the system is broken?

You are living proof that people are gullible and ignorant enough to be suckered by a con artist and cast a vote for him. That is democracy in action.

That is a moosepoop dodge to demand ridiculous standards of proof when it is readily available for you to find and is as obvious as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West.

You do realize the sun doesn't really rise, right? You take dang near every commentary and pivot to your personal bullshit and monomania because it's you who sees what you want to see in every paragraph and then you who spews your repetitive "facts" that aren't really facts. Same shit, different day. :)

I was chatting with some Canadian musicians about songs on YouTube and royalties etc. Royalties, in this country at least, are dwindling and Canada has sold its artists out for some of the lowest streaming rates in the world, I was told.

I also learned that "copyright" has nearly become fantasy. And, any official body, government or otherwise, that grants ownership of a song is simply registering and recognizing it, not defending it. So, if there is a breach of copyright by another party then it is up to the owner/songwriter alone to launch legal action. I guess someone must think that most artists have all kinds of money around to be able to launch legal actions on their own, right left and center!

I know that YouTube, for example, has wrongly credited copyright on many, many songs on their platform.

American writers, I'm told, do much better and have received a few raises and had actions taken on their behalf over the last few years.

The music industry is indeed a vicious game.

April Wine - Live

What individual actions has Biden taken that has ended up in COVID-19 deaths? Do you have something real that is not part of your weird catchall delusion? Or is this a personal version of "double secret probation"?

So you got nothing what so ever to defend your accusations? You believe without tangible evidence and therefore it is true? How is that not cuckoo bananas?

the conversation (and the main blog post) was about comparing joe biden and ronald reagan. do you have anything to say about them that isn't a pivot to your own personal tangents? if not, i suggest pie.

@liz[4],

yes, i think some musicians can make money from royalties if their work goes mainstream and is used on official channels of communication. it's way out of my expertise, but i'd wager it's tougher now than it was a decade or two ago.

JL

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the kind and decent Lugar, the joyful warrior McCain, the unprepossessing Graham, the courageous Lieberman and the graceful Sununu and Obama

i wonder how many of those assessments stood the test of time...

This one is especially for you!

In Praise of Joe Biden from a rare breed of journalist who actually understands who Joe Biden is and what he is all about.

I have come across one other such animal who works for the Boston Globe and once told me several years ago that "the media storyline on Biden is asinine", a quote I have often used, without attribution since the communication was private. That storyline may be changing now ...

Big lie or big delusion? You want to blame Biden for quite a bit but the vast majority of that is guilt by association rather than individual direct action.

opioids: Got anything? Bills Biden put forth? Anything at all? I see he has moved to put a stop to Trump's last minute move expand what opioids physicians can prescribe...

Your COVID-19 accusations are just mind bogglingly stupid. First, he was not in office during the vast majority of it. He practically begged everyone to wear a mask and follow the CDC recommendations any chance he got while campaigning. Finally he has rolled out the vaccines much faster than anyone thought possible and that is starting with nothing as Trump did not have a plan to pass on.

The Wars seem like a blanket, lets blame everyone for everything cop out. Got anything Biden specific that went against what everyone else was doing at the time?

I apply the same process of observing facts, analyzing data and meaningfully applying that not only to what a politician says but to what a politician does.

And yet can suspiciously not ever use these alleged facts or analyzed data to back up any point you trying to make. Interesting that...

Lets look at this through Occam's Razor: The entire American political system is against you and you are the only or one of the few to see it, or you are just cuckoo bananas. The later is certainly the simpler explanation...

As a young man, he defended British concentration camps for civilians in South Africa--the first concentration camps, by the way, and even if they weren't extermination camps as Auschwitz was, thousands died in them. He was in charge of a brutal regime in Kenya, wanting to displace the local population with white settlers in the more fertile areas, and meeting nationalists with prison camps, beatings and torture. He has some responsibility for the post-war situation in the Middle East, although goodness knows there were plenty of fingers in that pie and plenty of blame to share.

He didn't do all that well by working-class Britains, either. As a Home Secretary, he sent in troops to break up strikes on more than one occasion.

He didn't make 'gaffes' about race, he expressed his rather vile views about white supremacy and the rest of the world on record on more than one occasion. He was also, much of his adult life, in a position to act on his views.

I'm going to post my most favurite by a country mile op-ed in the New York Times ... just as soon as I find a link ... you Do. Not. Want. To. Miss. It!

And, I mean that sincerely, I'm not trying to be facetious here!

Biden gaffes get more notice because he talks less.

HA! OMG Okay, now THAT made me laugh out loud ... crack up, really ... hehehehehehehehehehehehehe ...

I'm not well versed on Winny in general, and have probably never heard of his "shocking race related" gaffes, but I'm betting the "tarnish on his reputation" represents 50 yrs worth of hyper sensitivity PC 'amokism'.

i'd wager you're a bit above average intelligence. reagan's shtick didn't work on you because you were able to observe facts, analyze data and meaningfully compare them to what the man was saying. that's a lot for the average voter's mind to do. furthermore, the average american voter in 1984 was significantly whiter and more racist than the average voter today - which, given donald trump's 2020 vote totals, is really saying something.

or to cite george carlin (aside to liz: it's only a ten second clip, so go nuts)

https://youtu.be/WDUIX2-akuQ

JL

Oh, and I never liked Reagan, with his fake humor and vacuous mind and corrupt administration and ... well, you get the idea. I was desperately embarrassed that he was our president, having no idea of the worse that was yet to come. So, did the Democratic strategists 'demonize' him to me - or did I draw my own conclusions just by watching the clown?