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THIS.

Because they understand propaganda, and undermining democracy is fundamentally a propaganda project. Lies of election fraud, repeated relentlessly, attain the illusion of truth, and they also help inoculate the perpetrators against future accountability.

„When human rights fall, everything else tumbles“

UN-Generalsekretär Guterres gestern in Genf.

Here we are at SOTU and no attack. Is Trump going to TACO the Iran war? God, I hope so.

It makes sense that a Bush era Replican has no historical knowledge prior to Nixon. They’re happy to memory hole Eisenhower and Hoover.

Yes, and: it’s more than engineering. The machinists in the Puget Sound Boeing plants had a culture of quality that was baked in for generations. Dreamliners coming out of South Carolina have to be flown to Everett and “fixed” before they are delivered.

With Roberts becoming a disappointment, she’s now in line for Chief Justice

No doubt the German high command in 1914 was just as confident in the Schlieffen Plan

‘Al-Aqsa is a detonator’: six-decade agreement on prayer at Jerusalem holy site collapses Israeli police raid compound, arrest staff and curb Muslims’ access as Ramadan begins

Aside from this being a very bad thing, the timing suggests that extremists are trying to provoke www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

It’s chilling how the “what is to be done” mentality is contagious with those who are stridently anti-Trump, and those who are otherwise very principled. Thank you for expressing appropriate alarm.

I wonder if he’s having a “Mission Accomplished” banner made for the occasion

There are now 3 certainties in life: death, taxes, and the customer feedback survey

While we’re paying attention to this, I want to add that Conn and Selmer should never have been allowed to merge. Thank the GW Bush DOJ for that one.

It’s interesting that Trump has no qualms about throwing seniors with mortgages under the bus. Senior housing should “never be a burden”, but only for seniors with some money in the bank. Otherwise, sure, let’s burden those losers.

The first and foremost advocate for a better Democratic Party, who tried to save the post Humphrey party from itself. I doubt I could have stuck with the Dems through the 80s but for his vision and tireless hope.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

Woodrow Wilson would be proud

Government policies have not caused the immigration “problem” in the US, it’s Americans themselves who created it. It’s easy to overstay a tourist visa and blend in here. Colonel Tom Parker was a good example. Even Fox News viewers welcome undocumented immigrants when they meet them in person.

The Dow 50K parenthetical got me thinking about boomers. There are probably a lot of retired boomer Fox News viewers who see life through the lens of their 401(k) and McMansion. This may be a minority cohort among our seniors, but it is a sad and tragic group of spoiled children.

Packing SCOTUS is table stakes if the Democrats want to make any meaningful changes

I just realized you can make this claim about Bogart, but his performance in The Caine Mutiny showed he had range that was generally not used.

Came here to say this. Nicholson ruled Hollywood during the seventies, and had some great scenes, but it was always Jack.

Top of head short list:
- shut down USAID
- significant layoffs across all federal agencies
- open graft and corruption that so far shows no signs of being prosecuted
- tore down the East Wing
- invaded Venezuela
- bombed Iran

This is not “very little success”

Perhaps that’s unavoidable if you’re trying to make a better world. On the other hand, Trump doesn’t seem to be having any problem with systemic inertia.

I must add that I voted for the Clintons in every race they ran because the alternative was worse. So I paid the electoral ransom. This makes it maddening to hear centrist’s constant complaints that voters aren’t voting as they’re told to do because they’re too hopeful.

The reason I dislike the Clintons is they led the Blairite movement to the center that put the party in a compromised position to this day. More than the Clintons, I truly hate “lesser evil” politics. The Dems have been leaning hard on that my entire voting life. This preempts real change.

I think I have pretty solid credentials as a Democratic Clinton hater, but I can’t think of anyone else I’d rather turn loose on those wretched spineless GOP senators.

They’ve been dealing with the lunatic fringe for 35 years - it goes all the way back to the Vince Foster conspiracy theory. If anyone can handle these desperate hyenas, the Clinton’s can.

I understand the politics of this, and don’t want to stand in front of the manned flight steamroller, but I’m desperately hoping we get back to prioritizing unmanned missions, which are much more valuable, after we show China we’ve still got it.

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.