When you consistently make claims with absolutely no credible evidence to back them up, why not go all-in?
Next: The healing power of the Moon's green cheese.
If you were wondering what the real reason we are going back to the Moon is, you now have your answer.
These types of RFK Jr. inspired BS health policies put soldiers' lives at risk.
For me, the matter of military health is somewhat personal. One of the soldiers I went through Basic Training with contracted a communicable disease and died from it. He was 18 years old.
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Hegseth is a dangerous idiot.
Historically, disease usually killed more soldiers than combat.
Vaccines and health in the military are a serious matter. Bringing people from all over the country together, and sometimes sending them to a foreign country, poses disease risks. /1
The gatekeepers are the voters. Bureaucrats do nothing but publish information about candidates so that voters can decide. If I had my way, any falsification on this government form would be met with a stiff fine and disqualification from office, but then again, as you know, I'm a complete hard ass.
And the problem with that is?
Why would I want someone with a lot of dirty laundry, desperate to hide it from the public, running for office? People with honesty, integrity, and character can handle power. Those without it often abuse power if they get it. Don't give them power.
Yet there is a solution. There has been zero movement in government to redress the vulnerability.
I wrote about it years ago.
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The lack of scrutiny is a massive security vulnerability we do nothing about. It allowed a life-long criminal compromised by a foreign power into the White House.
People are rightfully nervous having some bureaucrat being able to give the thumbs up or thumbs down to candidates. /2
So funny, the British.
By the way did you know that candidates for president and congress don't have to undergo background checks? Every other applicant for a position of trust in the federal government that requires a security clearance undergoes a screening process.
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That this man leads in the poll for the run-off in the GOP Texas Senate primary is proof that the Texas GOP and it's voters long ago swirled down the ethics toilet and now all occupy the sewers of American politics.
Corruption is celebrated. The more corrupt the candidate, the better.
"You sly dog! You got me monologuing!" - Syndrome in The Incredibles
All super villains have one weakness. Just remember to keep them talking instead of wielding their doomsday weapon, and you will expose them for what they are and be able to defeat them. 😎
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I worked in Watch Centers for a few years during my career, and the last thing you want there is someone who can't keep a cool head during a crisis.
At least Trump's minions got something right. They kicked him off the ops floor because he is a danger. /2
When you are afraid to have the President in the Situation Room because you fear he might to order something rash, or interfere with operations by starting an uncontrolled rant. /1
More like: “Every setback we suffer only steels our will. What seems like defeat today will become the seed of tomorrow’s victory.” - Joseph Goebbels 😎
Presidential Administrations all have turnover, but Trump was in a league of his own during his first term. (over 90%) Will the revolving door reach record speeds during his his second term?
Dune pond
Timeline cleaner: Dune pond at Nagshead Woods Reserve.
As I argue in this piece, Trump has transformed the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System.
It's amusing that in the category of smoke up our ass BS, the elite are laboring mightily to create an accepted social meme about AI utopian abundance and basic income on par with their highly successful trickle down economics BS.
Alternate days. Be sure to mark them that way on your calendar. There's also a guaranteed big policy announcement In the hours of before the market opens. 😎
Man indicating AI as an answer machine is to be avoided while AI for parody is good.
😎 Some uses of AI are at least partially defensible.
which would, in essence, eventually create a form of wealth cap. Tax reform is also a must. The big con of different tax rates for investment income as opposed to salary income must end, and a graduated tax. /2
Yes. It has to go. Even without it, money is power and corrupts and influences governments. That is why I think the real leverage point is to reduce wealth inequality. That would require eliminating obscene wealth so it can not so easily command the system. That requires a yearly wealth tax, /1
Russia was a bit lucky, but luck favors the prepared. Also, all of our thinking, politics, and lax security protocols didn't make it very hard for them. Due to our myopic arrogance, nothing of real substance has been done to plug those Grand Canyon-size gaps in the years since. /2
Correct.
While we were fighting GWOT, Putin was fighting and winning Cold War II. (While that idiot Sullivan et. al. were babbling on about the Russian "reset." )
Putting an erratic, weak lifelong criminal compromised by Russia into the White House was the greatest intelligence coup in history. /1
In the case of Miller, he has a motive - being a racist, xenophobic psycho, means - his position of power in Trump's inner circle, and opportunity. These bits of evidence converge to make him the most likely culprit. Others could be involved or just be the go-along cheerleaders supporting murder./2
Thanks, but I rarely guess.
I try to make judgments based on evidence. Even my apparent conjectures are more abductive inferences. There must be some initial supporting evidence, and the claim must be subject to further testing. /1
The Grand Vizier - Stephen Miller.
I remember the derision that several former Intel types, including some very senior ones, accumulated for saying that Russia helped push Trump over the top in 2016.
The evidence was fairly solid. At the time, I rated it as "very likely." The evidence since then has upgraded it to "nearly certain."
Correct.
Every obscene Trump monument to himself must be removed, razed to the ground. Ball Rooms, Triumph Arches, everything.
It doesn't matter how much it will cost. It's a matter of restoring the nation's dignity after the horror of Trump. That doesn't have a price tag.
We can move beyond fear of the different. Being different, diverse, is what a free people do, what they are. That diversity has long been the secret sauce of America's success, and yet even from our founding people have worked to destroy it. Why? Because they were afraid, afraid to be free. /12
