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Comment Re:Coal is dirty, gas less so, nuclear not at all (Score 1) 8

The difference is with the antivax granola wackos is that liberals called them wackos and they were ostracized from normal discourse, they were always the fringe.

Republicans embraced antivax and took it mainstream, all the way to the white house, because they are shameless cretins who are always thirsty for another new conspiracy, another new set of "others" to put people against. I mean you all have kept Wakefield rich from speaking gigs when he should be the type of person unable to show his face in the world. Instead he moved to... Well what ya know, fuckin Texas. Of course, he can peddle his bullshit there.

Comment Re:Just think (Score 2) 41

Well yeah Vance is defacto the President but that doesn't make him Trump and doesn't mean he has the reigns on the leadership. I don't think Vance is capable of keeping the coalition together like Trump was.

Same for Heritage who really has been riding Trumps coattails for the past decade. They can have a long game plan but they don't have a way to execute it unless they can get Vance on their side and again, he can hold those coalitions. MAGA is really a rejection of that old -school heritage style thinking, they've just been coattail riding in the background, they can have a plan but they won't be able to muster the base, not without another Trump-sized personality. The groypers and MTG crowd ain't gonna trust them.

They've overcooked their base, they're numb to normal politicians now and there is nobody in the wings with the juice. Vance doesn't have it, his kids dont have it, his cabinet doesn't have it.

Comment Re:Sorry Big Bird (Score 1) 107

It was more a shot at you for your suggestion of "Well it doesn't turn a profit so, fuck them kids". My point is some things are more important than that. Perish the thought I know.

https://www.indiewire.com/news...

Even if the practical effects of this agreement aren’t that dramatic, on a philosophical level, this is a very big deal. At a time when both Democratic and Republican candidates are railing against the rising tide of inequality in America, one of our nation’s great equalizers — public TV — has agreed to partially abandon what is perhaps its most important asset to a for-profit corporation. HBO isn’t the bad guy here: It wouldn’t have been able to make this deal if Sesame Workshop felt the future of Sesame Street was vibrant and secure on PBS. This happened because our dysfunctional political system has made what ought to be a universally accepted principle — quality educational programming should be free and easily available to all kids, regardless of their parents’ income level — somehow controversial.

Children’s programming strikes the most potent emotional chord, but the issue goes way beyond that. It’s about the deterioration of the public sphere, and the erosion, both through calculated attacks and general apathy, of the idea that we as a nation ought to have some things in common that aren’t limited to people who can afford them. Be mad if you like, but don’t take it out on Big Bird.

Comment Re:/me gets butter and salt (Score 4, Informative) 44

In a civilized world, the US and China would have a mutual extradition treaty so criminals could face justice.

Unfortunately for the CCP, rejecting human rights is one of their top four most fundamental principles. We can't have an extradition treaty with a country that doesn't even pretend to care about its people.

Comment Re:US Picked Officials In Ukraine After 2014 Coup (Score 4, Interesting) 83

This article is textbook misinformation.

Read the title and the only quote referenced from the declassified document is: “These officials highlighted that, prior to the visit (from Joe Biden), the Poroshenko administration and other Ukrainian officials expected the U.S. Vice President to discuss personal matters with Poroshenko during the visit, and had assumed that the U.S. Vice President would advocate in support or against specific officials within the Ukrainian government”.

Then they quote some op-ed's and some private intelligence analysts but it's all just words from people, unsubstantiated. Then they get the conclusion of the headline with just that and of course, of course it's the Nuland thing. It always is because that's all there is and it's nothing. That's it. Nothing declassified supports the conclusion but they make it anyway. Zero journalism done, there's a reason this is only on substack and X.

"Well your Honor, we've got lot's of hearsay and conjecture, those are kinds of evidence.".

Comment Re:Just think (Score 3, Insightful) 41

So two of them snuck in by getting nominated? The other two were already around. What about Hegseth and Gabbard? They're not neocons too right?

What's the even the angle here?

Trump wants the war.
Trump is easily manipulated into the war.
Trump doesn't want the war but is a shit judge of character and/or is unable to stand up for himself.

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