I gave you links to articles in which Romney spelled out what he would have done differently.

anyway, I get it, this is BSky, so any takes that aren't "Romney was 100% wrong, and Obama was 100% right" aren't welcome here.

yes, and the only likely impact of Romney's socially conservative views would have been his SCOTUS nominees, which I stated were the only reason to vote for Obama over Romney.

I did live thru Romney being the governor of my very blue state, so I'm aware of how he operates as the chief executive

Romney slams Obama for 'faulty judgment' on Russia WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney said Sunday that President Barack Obama is naive when it comes to Russia, has shown "faulty judgment" about Moscow's intentions and could have done more to try to deter i...

we know this b/c Romney actually commented on Obama's policies wrt Ukraine & Syria in real time, and the benefit of hindsight tells us Romney was right:
apnews.com/article/7caf...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/f...
[the rebels have now won. wouldn't it have been better w/o over a decade of bloodshed?]

what were the major things that happened in Obama's second term other than Syria (Obama's infamous "red line") and Russia's first invasion of Ukraine?

Obama's greatest achievement was Obamacare (from his first term), which was modeled on Romneycare. I benefit from both, and I actually benefit more from Romneycare (I have a zero deductible MA ConnectorCare policy with affordable co-pays).

so I guess I have a soft spot for Romney. lol

Romney's potential SCOTUS picks were the only reason not to vote for him in 2012.

were it not for his SCOTUS nominees, Romney may have been a better pick for President in 2012, based on 20/20 hindsight foreign policy considerations (i.e. Ukraine, Syria, etc).

doesn't it depend on which part of Brooklyn? if I knew NYC geography better, I'm sure I could name a part of Brooklyn known to host "liberation seders" with notable parts of the Haggadah omitted

"a chance to end the Occupation" is quite optimistic.

did you see this recent horrific Bagatz decision?
x.com/eliavl/statu...

with this Congress, there will be more votes to get Judge Boasberg impeached.

How did unsafe workplace practices like this become illegal? labor unions or regulations or both? (OSHA's predecessor, the Bureau of Labor Standards, was created in 1934)

[speaking of which, many LA firefighters have been pictured not wearing respiratory PPE, which is unsafe]
x.com/Rainmaker197...

A Critique of Ron Unz’s Article “The Myth of American Meritocracy”

The site is still viewable on the internet archive:
web.archive.org/web/20220513...

Google got rid of the old Google Sites platform that I used. Which platform do you think would be best for "re-publishing" it?

thanks for tagging me on Twitter. I saw it and replied. I'll deal with him going forward (well, until I get tired of him)

one time it was from an anti-Semite with a history PhD who argues that the Jews (by which he means the NKVD) genocided the Germans before the Nazis genocided the Jews, and the Holocaust was thus revenge/retaliation.

grim stuff.

sorry I haven't been on Bsky. it indeed was the start of my posting career, but the problem is that Google deleted the website where I wrote up my debunking of Unz. do you have a suggestion where I should put it back up? I've been delaying action on this but it's come up on Twitter 2x in past days

I had already suspected that Bernie is considering voting to confirm RFK Jr b/c he keeps tweeting RFK Jr-type stuff on the FDA and obesity. e.g.
x.com/SenSanders/s...

anyway, it wouldn't hurt for you to send Bernie a letter explaining why he should vote nay on RFK Jr.

did you see that Bernie is considering voting to confirm RFK Jr?
x.com/HCTrudo/stat...

would you consider writing a letter to Bernie? do you know anyone in VT who would also consider contacting Bernie about this?

I have little doubt this is Alon's Israeliness.

anyway, Alon, I'm looking for your take on the French far-left and far-right uniting to oust Barnier. this is what I tweeted:
x.com/NuritBaytch/...

I corrected Favreau on Twitter at the time given that his tweet seems to suggest he's unaware of Trump's own BOP policy on this, but I'm curious if the same would apply to ICE detainees?

that's disappointing. has anyone been keeping a tally of how GOP senators plan to vote on the RFK Jr nomination? it would be useful to collect data points like this to see where the pressure points are. Murkowski, Collins...maybe Cornyn...?

have you considered writing to your senators to urge them to vote against RFK Jr?

what about הכותל?

imagine how many MORE Americans would have died of COVID-19 if we had taken Bhattacharya's advice (which was for most Americans to carry on as if there was no pandemic BEFORE the vaccines were available).

this piece he wrote in March 2020 is tantamount to scientific fraud

Opinion | Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude.

read this (gift link) now with the knowledge that 1,200,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. his arguments were obviously BS even in March 2020. he suggested it's far more plausible that only 20,000 or 40,000 Americans would die of COVID-19 than 2 million.
www.wsj.com/articles/is-...

Trump has nominated Jay Bhattacharya to be director of NIH.
in March 2020, he wrote in the WSJ that if it’s true that COVID-19 would kill millions WITHOUT lockdowns, then lockdowns would be justified and then argues that scientists' projections that 2 million could die of COVID are far-fetched>

on the issue of taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for inmates, Harris/Democrats should've put out ads explaining that:
1. Trump's Bureau of Prisons agreed that it's the law
2. it's to prevent suicide and/or self-castration (BOTH have happened among inmates)

it's rare - only happened 2x

RFK Jr. is not "run of the mill" incompetence. he thinks he knows better than the doctors and scientists at the FDA, CDC, and NIH and wants to eviscerate our public health system. RFK Jr's antivax activism led to deaths of scores of Samoan children in a measles outbreak.

Democrats talked about the potential of Obamacare being repealed during the campaign. there's nothing more to be done right now until the legislation is proposed. currently, Trump is announcing his largely insane nominees, so that's why we're talking about it

I don't think you should so readily dismiss the Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr nominations just b/c Sean Duffy isn't an extremist

Rep. Nancy Mace claimed today that she is a feminist (in order to attack trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride).

in 2019, Mace declared, "I'm not a feminist" (0:40):
www.facebook.com/nancyrmace/v...

someone should ask Mace when she became a feminist and why it's feminist to support abortion bans!

Complete Genomic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses Obtained Directly from Human Autopsy Specimens The complete genomic sequences of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses were directly obtained from lung, trachea, and colon tissues and an intestinal fecal sample of a patient by usin...

H5N1 is an RNA virus:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I'm not engaging with your antivax BS.