Tag: Debate

One of the truest things anyone can probably say of former President Donald Trump, is that he never fails to completely floor us all. And this time, at least, he didn’t even have to do a single thing to pull it off. On Wednesday, August 23rd, the first debate of the 2024 GOP primary race fo...

Have you ever seen a contest where everybody lost? Well, feast your eyes on this murderers’ row of spooks and hacks at the 2024 GOP presidential debate… Now you have. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/republican-debate-who-won-takeaways-00112691 F...

In a worldwide exclusive, The Mad Parade has acquired the transcript of the debate via single-use access to a time machine. Could we have used it to travel back to 1889 to kill baby Hitler or to 2016 to delete to the master tapes of Baby Shark? Sure. Did we instead frivolously skip ahead a...

When it comes to campaigning, there’s no denying that Donald Trump approaches it like no other. It was the lack of filter, so uncharacteristic for nearly every other politician in the country that endeared him to a base that was in search of a disrupter. Someone to go in there and leave these ...

Two distinct approaches to art When we envision traditional artists, our minds often conjure up a specific stereotype: a profoundly creative man or woman who fervently splatters paint onto canvas, engendering original and unparalleled imagery born solely from their imagination. Occasionally, we m...

Since the beginning of the co-opting of urban art, there has been much debate about what art actually is and who gets to decide. Actually, more likely, it’s been debated since the beginning of the creation of art in general, but we’re most concerned with urban art; graffiti and street...

Alex could not stop thinking about the strange entities’ claims that humanity were merely simulated beings in an artificial world. Though skeptical, Alex felt compelled to further explore concepts of digital consciousness, artificial sentience, and simulated realities to uncover any kernel of ...

Did you know Spain’s Barcelona rejected the iconic structure during its construction? We often think of Paris when it comes to the Eiffel Tower. It’s true! History has recorded that during its creation in the late 1880s, Barcelona held an open design competition for a 300-foot tower t...

If you have a pulse and a Twitter account whose algorithm has caught on to the fact you like football, you’ve seen the flurry of Ballon d’Or shortlist posts over the last twenty-four hours. I could dive into the sheer lunacy of having a thirty player shortlist for an award that...

In recent years, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has been at the forefront of a contentious debate surrounding the use of data-driven predictive policing. Employing sophisticated algorithms and data analysis, the LAPD aims to anticipate and prevent crimes before they occur. However, this ap...

Last week’s debate in Miami gave Republican presidential hopefuls another shot to make their appeal to Americans as to why they should be the nominee. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christ...

There’s a lively debate in the business world about whether sales and marketing are distinct entities or if one encompasses the other. A central reason for this debate is simply that many marketers didn’t enter their field with the intent to sell. That’s a reality, as highlighted b...

Alice started the conversation by saying: “I believe that God exists and that he is the creator and sustainer of everything that exists. He loves us and wants us to have a personal relationship with him. He sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins and rise from the dead so that we ca...

At the fourth debate for 2024 Republican presidential primary candidates, livestreamed on NewsNation and Rumble, moderator Megyn Kelly let the hopefuls speak for seven-and-a-half minutes about the evil chaos of trans kids. Media Matters has the video clip. Donald Trump, who&nb...

The Supreme Court seemed ready to maintain a foreign income tax while simultaneously avoiding further discussion regarding the wealth tax. The Supreme Court case, centering around a provision in the 2017 tax bill, came to the forefront as conservative and liberal justices expressed concerns ...

The two rulings in question, Grants Pass v. Johnson and Martin v. Boise, have raised significant concerns among city officials and leaders across the nation. In Martin v. Boise, individuals experiencing homelessness in Boise, Idaho, alleged that the city violated their Eighth Amendment rights by out...

Yesterday marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that claimed the lives of 21 innocent people at Robb Elementary School, 19 of them children. Following that mass shooting, we offered the traditional thoughts and prayers which were so effective that a mass shoot...

Gun control refers to the government regulation of firearms, aiming to reduce gun-related violence and ensure public safety. The specific measures implemented vary across countries and jurisdictions, but they typically involve restrictions on gun ownership, purchase, and possession. The purpose of g...

On the other side, there are those who oppose any restrictions on gun ownership, claiming that they would infringe on their constitutional right to bear arms, leave them vulnerable to criminals and tyrannical governments, and have no effect on crime rates. A gun owner, who belong to the latter gr...

Healthcare: Have it and live, or die without it. You either have it when you need it or you die. Let’s stop talking about it like we don’t know what it means. If you deny people health care you are sentencing them to death. So moving forward just say you are Pro Death so we clearly know ...

The advent of CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized genetic engineering, offering unprecedented precision and ease in editing the DNA of living organisms. While this breakthrough has the potential to eradicate genetic diseases and improve human health, it has also ignited a fierce ethical debate...

Atmospheric pressure (also known as barometric pressure) is caused from the downward force of air in the atmosphere. Generally, pressure is minimal in the higher atmosphere, and greatest at the Earth’s surface. But even at Earth’s surface, pockets of high and low pressures can be found, ...

In the 2016 science fiction drama Arrival about first contact with aliens, the movie’s two protagonists, a linguist and a physicist, meet in a military helicopter on their way to attempt to decipher and understand why the aliens came to earth and what they want. The physicist, Ian Donnelly, in...

A few months have passed since I had published an article detailing Professor Gupta’s hypothesis regarding an alternate cosmological model to determining the age of our universe. Contained within said article had been something of a criticism against the rigid self-preservation of...

Unlike other Germanic languages, English shares a large portion of their vocabulary with French and Latin, often attributed to the period of Norman French dominance in England after 1066. The size of this Romance influence on English, along with some other technical aspects such as pronunciatio...