Waltz isn't arguing that Trump ended 8 wars. That false fact is not the lede. The lede is they intend to starve the UN into irrelevancy and replace it with an institution that caters to the whims of The US.

I have words for this. She is a brave citizen, maybe one our bravest , and she doesn't "trust the process" because who would? And most importantly , she isn't an optimist; she isn't going to wait to try to do SOMETHING.

Meanwhile the SAVE act, narrowly passed by the house , hovers malevolently in the Senate. It doesn't have to be addressed until the day before the midterms.

It's a great quote , spot-on accurate . I'm just not sure who it's for. If people don't read , and politics isn't at all a part of their lives , regardless of whether they vote, the outlandish sounding facts just spin around in our sphere until they simply disintegrate.

I think it depends on not only what you want to read but what you want others to read. If I go to an alternative , is Ann Applebaum or some other important writer going to be there? Or is it more important that some Nazi writer I'll never read isn't?

And yet the optimists believe there will be a tipping point in our fat happy country where the MAGA and the dead on the inside Do Not Cares will join us in putting a stop to this. Just wait until the midterms!

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When rich people run out of cool shit to buy , they begin buying depraved experiences. Sound familiar?

If you love data centers, Bitcoin farms, water extraction and exportations of dubious legality; if you love general resource pilferage and hoarding without regard for citizen rights , land or water rights then giant warehouses of human detention are of a piece. It's all for sale in Texas.

Well they aren't . this week we're having faith in the American people to defend democracy. Whether that works , is anybody's guess.

Obviously you've retired at 21.

I can tell all of the positive people so certain of the outcome that unless you've killed something in your life(shot it or cut its throat) I would caution less certainty. I respect your opinion ,I know we want similar things,but mass America isn't ready to shoot an enemy down in the streets.

I'm saying you are one of those people I see on TV and have since 2016 who totally lack imagination.

Well then you're deaf. There is not a single Democrat in any county seat within 100 miles of my little red town. And I've been talking until I'm blue in the face. I'm saying if you are really living in a world where you don't see yourself dying at the govs hands or killing a human for democracy WTF

Oh ok , you want anecdotal? I live in a red state where most people support some form of this or absolutely don't give a shit and can't be bothered to turn up at a polling station. You can heap all the blame on trump/co. , but something put him where he is and that something was us.

My parents taught me to live in the world as it is , not in the one we want. There are too many people who think a fair election is even the end of this , or the beginning of the end of this. Suppose they simply refuse to comply.Where has an attempt like that ever been made? In 2020.And did it end?

You have a lot of faith in the 1/3 who voted for this and the 1/3 who couldn't be bothered to vote at all. And you used what , 75 characters to make that statement? Until 2 people were murdered by ICE , I saw a lot of complicity and a lot of apathy. There's such a thing as too little, too late.

Help what ? Help you and all the thumbs up folks feel better about your optimism? maybe it really will all work out. One thing I know is that the American people have never as a whole had the entire federal government unleashed on them. it's insane to believe that's an inviolate condition.

Yes , the glass really is half empty.

Ok well , that's definitely an argument . it doesn't take into account the possibilities ,including simply seizing voting machines. What if red states or cities refuse to certify results? Or literally a myriad of other dreamed up evil machinations?
You're just way more optimistic than I am.

If they're yanking Brown people out of voting lines and questioning them or if there are fears or rumors of such activity that's going to keep people home. Not everyone is as cavalier about the possibility. "Make it a party" and disappear into an impenetrable detention system?

You are the second most tedious person I've ever encountered on here. I'm not gonna whittle away the day arguing with someone who makes so little sense , sentence to sentence.

Aaaaand if it started before Obama , why didn't you include the Republicans? WHATABOUT Bush?

Oh I know , but with your cliched Botspeak Whataboutism ,you sound like one.

That's a good point GoodPoint Bot! Look at the velvet glove with which the Biden admin. addressed anything involving Trump's lawlessness. Having an electorate full of irrational , well-armed nut jobs sending anonymous pizzas to federal judges etc., might have had a role. But sure , WHATABOUT.

That Rogan's opinion on the matter is relevant hurts a bone or a cluster of nerves at the base of my skull. I cannot think of a less intelligent media personality , or anyone paid so well to voice an opinion,with less nuanced or educated analysis. Imagine what he reads-- Russian Facebook posts.

By the time it's time to do our thing , our collective fate will likely be sealed.

And , as far as anyone can really tell, the US military.

Exactly. Ukraine stands to lose a lot on inaccurate or misleading Intel, and from what I've read they do their homework. It's the gall of Ukraine getting the stick while Russia gets all the carrots and dictates the route the cart is gonna take that makes me sick.

We can thank Russian Active Measures for efforts they've made to undermine American idiots' confidence in vaccines. That's the country this massively corrupt government have a 12 trillion dollar handshake agreement with to sail Ukraine down the fuckin river. Signed: 58 yr , can't get COVID booster.