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“God is on Trump’s side. God is not on the Democrats’ side and if patriots have to kill 60 million of these communists, it is God’s will. Think ethnic cleansing but it’s anti-communist cleansing.”
William McCall Calhoun Jr.
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There's so many flavors of anti moderism Christian Fundamentalists it's hard to keep track. Sort of like the Taliban to Al-Qaeda to ISIL. Fundamentalist religions and politics follow the same path the world over. Here however it's an open market with low barrier to entry so choices abound.
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NY Times fun house Liberalism. Where all sides are due not only a hearing, all sides deserve respect.
I don't recall any NY Times story about astronomers or geologists being pro round earth.
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Cocaine ruined everything.
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As a Timothy McVeigh fanboy, or let's say Timothy McVeigh curious, Cotton is the real deal.
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Polls in 74 had a higher percent whites polled than today I'll guess. Thus presuming authoritarian support in polls would not likely poll 68% support today. So now when you see 56% supporting the LA stuff this isn't an accurate measure of actual liberalism having risen since 74.
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A poll sometime after had 68% supporting the Ohio National Guard, in regard to the student shootings.The same who supported Calley's release. Now today polls are skewed by ethnics but an unskewed poll would find that 68% would still hold up today.
My sadness. Watching and waiting for 50 years.
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Ethnic segregation and ethinc discrimination are popular. That's the problem for Democrats. All the hand wringing and David Brooks bleatings since the 70's are distractions which for 60 years helped Democrats pretend it wasn't so. Especially the Democrats who don't like ethnics either.
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Hill in her lead appearance at the first Trump impeachment said "we" fought against fascism in WWII. My heart sank. No "we" didn't. Some did but half of American are fascist or largely amenable to fascism. For 80 years non fascists couldn't or wouldn't see it or say it. When blood runs you'll see.
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How did Grassley's staff of wingnuts let that happen?
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At least we still have toilet paper.
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Dick Biondi would have gotten more votes.
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Recount!
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Monsignor Douthat
(HT Driftglass)
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The war on Islamic terrorism had to start with the Saudis state enforced fundamentalist version of Islam. Which arose at exactly the same time English speaking Christians invented Biblinca Fundamentalism in response to modernism, for the same reasons.
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Abundance means more credit. Specifically bank credit which is how money is created. We've been borrowing ourselves into abundance for 40 years but need much much more money as everyone knows.
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTBKCR
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Who is and who isn't Jewish is determined by MAGA influencers.
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Like lawyers who aren't quite smart enough for the Supreme Court, that is those not out of Yale, ballplayers who don't play for New York or Boston teams just don't quite stack up.
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Didn't play in my browser but downloaded quickly.
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The problem for Democrats is that racial and ethnic segregation are popular.
I wonder why this obvious fact has never been stated in that way since the dawn of the Civil Rights era?
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8 years on it's amazing that the obvious fact that Miller is an odious creep has not bled through to his coverage in news and comment. The Goebbels analogies from pictures to words is so obvious yet is never mentioned. Amazing.
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Abundance, or substitute the world growth, requires more cheap energy. 50 years of better policy and rapid credit expansion have not and will not deliver abundance. Abundant energy is not going to happen, if at all, on a timescale of several decades.
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Matty Y used 'neoliberal shill' as a header on his Twitter page sometime back. I pointed out that isn't quite right. He's the living embodiment of neoliberalism.
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Abundance requires abundant cheap energy. The economy is an energy system. Better policy and more credit, money that is, will not bring abundance. There is no prospect for abundant energy. Just more barely treading water instead.
surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/resources/
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Nobody cares about the debt because they sort of know the Fed will monetize it. They know or think they know the 'debt' is illusory. What they don't know is that then the money is then illusory and that the money is bad.
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The coin of the Conservative realm is publicity. Every one of Trump's boys and girls is a publicity hound just like Daddy.
The publicity, the fame itself, is the point. Trump has a shot at being one of the most famous people in world history. More famous than Hitler. He's going for it.
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I'm still trying to figure out if Santo Ono is related to Yoko?
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15 or so years ago I caught wind of the Pedophile panic in the UK among let's call them alternative political thinkers. With networks of the powerful involved. Uh oh I thought.
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Truss was nixed by a financial panic that she inadvertently fostered. Inadvertent because she's dumb. I mean Art Laffer in the 2020's? OMG.
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The problem for Democrats is that a majority of Americans support ethnic cleansing.
Period. Paragraph. Space. Full stop.
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It's the perfect time. Search:
Monty Python archaeology
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Frightened? Odd emotion to have when thinking of Brooks.
He built a nice little career out of a shtick. Imagining a Conservatism which exists only in his imagination. Turning away from that is curious not freighting. Of course Brooks was going to stray when the blood stared flowing. Not so soon.
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Put a copy of the Horse Wessel song on your phone to play when you see them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9D...
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Just waiting for their Horst Wessel.
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With all possible respect, that isn't an endgame.
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One takeaway for me is it doesn't advance any endgame. Probably sets it back. I don't have an an endgame.
Another is that with very small expenditures small groups can inflict significant strategic damage on great powers. While Ukraine isn't small it's smallish. Imagining anarchy, with drones.
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I cut a lot of slack for local sports reporters for keeping lots of stuff off the record. If I ever get a chance to piss on Tim Russert's grave I will.
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Real Americans don't give a shit about about all that hocus pocus stuff.
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He's gone all the way round the bend. If the courts don't give him what he wants then it will have to be up to the street to rise up. They hate the Roberts' and Leo's of the world actually.
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So wrong and so sad.
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That quote would have most of MAGA reaching for their guns. Conservatism has come a long way. In the the arc of the history of political parties often has 180 degree turns. However, Conservatism morphing into anarchy wasn't on many Bingo cards.
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Covering Hitler's impressive summer home and retreat, The Eagles Nest, was a far better use of the pages of the NY Times.
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I believe it is in the realm of possibility that Trump would order a launch with the intent of destroying the world. Yes, pure madness. With chances increasing as he declines. I won't hazard a percent chance. Pick your own. Not likely but possible.
The question then is, do they launch?
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Oh to be the fly on the wall as Mike sucks down blunts with Musk and they discuss their embryo hosts.
Praise Jesus
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His drug sucking polygamist friend. He's go lots of them. Praise Jesus.
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Rahm got Obama elected. Period. Full Stop. His PR people, so to speak, were floating stories of how much the Japanese loved him last year. Why not Rahm? He's not woke. His profanity is legendary. A powerful asset. Politics is a dirty business.
What his plans are for a rapidly devolving world?