Matt Gaetz Is Said to Be Investigated Over Possible Sexual Relationship With a Girl,

Gaetz's case looks worse every day as more comes out. He is looking like he is in deep trouble. It is CNN's fault though. I don't know why.
 
Hello Walt,

Walt said:
Exactly right. My theory is: One of their ancestors passed, and that was their road out of poverty. They taught their children that being white is the most important thing. Their descendants became racists based on that.

Another possible theory is there are more people have Black ancestry and do not know it in the South, and there are more racists.
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Much of this is unresolved guilt over having taken advantage of slaves (captive rape,) and having passed that guilt on down to succeeding generations in the form of racism.

We are still fighting the American Civil War!
 
Hello Cypress,

Cypress said:
38 year olds trying to date high school seniors strikes me as going beyond mere compatibility issues. It strikes me as vaguely predatory.

A man approaching middle age who is attempting to have sex with high school seniors obviously has some disturbing mental issues, including sociopathic elements of manipulation and control.
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Maybe he had a bad time at his own high school prom (stood up?) (crushed?) and is attempting a do-over to 'get it right.'
 
Walt said:
If I friend of mine in his 50's was dating an 18 year old high school student, he would no longer be a friend of mine. It is technically legal, but come on.
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My respect for such a person would certainly drop. More often I saw coworkers "trade in their 40 year old wife for two 20 year old fuck bunnies". That too caused my respect for them to drop since they invariably started acting like an idiotic 20 year old themselves. Eventually they'd go broke and the party would be over. Usually after a year or three.

Two thoughts come can come into play with those situations: one is an older person manipulating a weaker, younger person. More often, in my experience, it was the older person trying to recapture their youth and allowing themselves to be manipulated by younger person. 9 times out of 10 or more, the man was the older person.
 
Cypress said:
Trump is a sleaze bag, no doubt. Supposedly he liked to walk in on half dressed teenagers at that beauty contest he owned.

As for 38 year olds who go out of their way to date 17 and 18 year old girls - aka high school seniors - , it just strikes me as vaguely predatory.
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Agreed Trump is a sleaze bag. In fact, I think he's far worse.

Agreed it's predatory, not vague at all.
 
Walt said:
Exactly right. My theory is: One of their ancestors passed, and that was their road out of poverty. They taught their children that being white is the most important thing. Their descendants became racists based on that.

Another possible theory is there are more people have Black ancestry and do not know it in the South, and there are more racists.
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Just like the British Royals! :laugh:

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Matt Gaetz's alibi goes down in flames as fact checkers find 'nothing to support' his claim


Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) recently claimed that travel records would prove that he did not have sex with a 17-year-old girl -- but fact checkers have not been able to verify his assertions.

The Washington Post fact check awarded Gaetz with "Four Pinocchios" for his claim that travel records would prove his innocence.

https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-fact-check/
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello Dutch Uncle,

I think in general we Americans have an over-elevated view of ourselves in the eyes of the world.
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Before the fall of the Soviet Union, we were correct in that view. Now we are trying to reevaluate our place in the world.

Fareed Zakaria pointed this out in his 2008 book "The Post-American World: And the Rise of the Rest". He points out that the book isn't about the decline of the United States; but the rise of the rest of the world to the level of the United States.

In short, the efforts of the United States to spread democracy and capitalism worked. More and more nations are rising to our level every year.

https://fareedzakaria.com/columns/2008/05/12/the-rise-of-the-rest
We are living through the third great power shift in modern history. The first was the rise of the Western world, around the 15th century. It produced the world as we know it now—science and technology, commerce and capitalism, the industrial and agricultural revolutions. It also led to the prolonged political dominance of the nations of the Western world. The second shift, which took place in the closing years of the 19th century, was the rise of the United States. Once it industrialized, it soon became the most powerful nation in the world, stronger than any likely combination of other nations. For the last 20 years, America's superpower status in every realm has been largely unchallenged—something that's never happened before in history, at least since the Roman Empire dominated the known world 2,000 years ago. During this Pax Americana, the global economy has accelerated dramatically. And that expansion is the driver behind the third great power shift of the modern age—the rise of the rest.

At the military and political level, we still live in a unipolar world. But along every other dimension—industrial, financial, social, cultural—the distribution of power is shifting, moving away from American dominance. In terms of war and peace, economics and business, ideas and art, this will produce a landscape that is quite different from the one we have lived in until now—one defined and directed from many places and by many peoples.

The post-American world is naturally an unsettling prospect for Americans, but it should not be. This will not be a world defined by the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else. It is the result of a series of positive trends that have been progressing over the last 20 years, trends that have created an international climate of unprecedented peace and prosperity.



https://www.npr.org/2011/06/30/137522219/what-does-a-post-american-world-look-like
Thirty years ago, the United States dominated the world politically, economically and scientifically. But today?

"The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore," notes Fareed Zakaria. "And ... more troublingly, [the United States is] also losing [its] key grip on indices such as patent creation, scientific creations and things like that — which are really harbingers of future economic growth."

Zakaria, the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and an editor at large for Time magazine, charts the fall of America's dominance and the simultaneous rise of the rest of the world in his book The Post-American World: Release 2.0, which shows how the collapse of communism and the Soviet empire — as well as the rise of global markets — has leveled the playing field for many other countries around the world.

"The result is you have countries all over the world thriving and taking advantage of the political stability they have achieved, the economic connections of a global market, the technological connection into this market," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "And we are all witnesses to this phenomenon."
 
Hello Dutch Uncle,

Dutch Uncle said:
Before the fall of the Soviet Union, we were correct in that view. Now we are trying to reevaluate our place in the world.

Fareed Zakaria pointed this out in his 2008 book "The Post-American World: And the Rise of the Rest". He points out that the book isn't about the decline of the United States; but the rise of the rest of the world to the level of the United States.

In short, the efforts of the United States to spread democracy and capitalism worked. More and more nations are rising to our level every year.

https://fareedzakaria.com/columns/2008/05/12/the-rise-of-the-rest
We are living through the third great power shift in modern history. The first was the rise of the Western world, around the 15th century. It produced the world as we know it now—science and technology, commerce and capitalism, the industrial and agricultural revolutions. It also led to the prolonged political dominance of the nations of the Western world. The second shift, which took place in the closing years of the 19th century, was the rise of the United States. Once it industrialized, it soon became the most powerful nation in the world, stronger than any likely combination of other nations. For the last 20 years, America's superpower status in every realm has been largely unchallenged—something that's never happened before in history, at least since the Roman Empire dominated the known world 2,000 years ago. During this Pax Americana, the global economy has accelerated dramatically. And that expansion is the driver behind the third great power shift of the modern age—the rise of the rest.

At the military and political level, we still live in a unipolar world. But along every other dimension—industrial, financial, social, cultural—the distribution of power is shifting, moving away from American dominance. In terms of war and peace, economics and business, ideas and art, this will produce a landscape that is quite different from the one we have lived in until now—one defined and directed from many places and by many peoples.

The post-American world is naturally an unsettling prospect for Americans, but it should not be. This will not be a world defined by the decline of America but rather the rise of everyone else. It is the result of a series of positive trends that have been progressing over the last 20 years, trends that have created an international climate of unprecedented peace and prosperity.



https://www.npr.org/2011/06/30/137522219/what-does-a-post-american-world-look-like
Thirty years ago, the United States dominated the world politically, economically and scientifically. But today?

"The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore," notes Fareed Zakaria. "And ... more troublingly, [the United States is] also losing [its] key grip on indices such as patent creation, scientific creations and things like that — which are really harbingers of future economic growth."

Zakaria, the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and an editor at large for Time magazine, charts the fall of America's dominance and the simultaneous rise of the rest of the world in his book The Post-American World: Release 2.0, which shows how the collapse of communism and the Soviet empire — as well as the rise of global markets — has leveled the playing field for many other countries around the world.

"The result is you have countries all over the world thriving and taking advantage of the political stability they have achieved, the economic connections of a global market, the technological connection into this market," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "And we are all witnesses to this phenomenon."
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And the fastest train in the world is also not in America.
 
Hello Dutch Uncle,

Dutch Uncle said:
We've succumbed to resting on our laurels and getting fat eating grapes.

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It was easy to dominate world production after WWII. Much of the rest of the world's factories lay in ruins.

What did they do?

They looked at the USA, and attempted to build their own new factories using ours as examples while incorporating improvements where they saw the opportunity. Thus, they not only matched what we had, but they leap-frogged ahead in some ways.

Now it is time for us to stop assuming we are the greatest, and do the same thing they did.

We look at what is working the best, no matter where it is in the world, and we not only try to duplicate the better aspects of it, but we incorporate improvements.
 
Trumpet said:
Are you serious??????? This is one of the dumbness post that I've ever seen.
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Yes, the age of the prostitute is what is problematic for me, if she was indeed 17. I think prostitution should be a legal, otherwise, but I would like the age to be 21 and up.
 
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The US is a very unenlightened country in some respects. Prostitution is legal in many countries and is usually 18, sometimes 17. However I don't get how puritanical the US can be though. The Dems want to lower the age of voting to 16, yet want to increase the age of consent.
 
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