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"Meanwhile, the West is feeding weapons to Ukraine piecemeal."
Yes, true... and one reason for that is that the situation has revealed how totally unprepared we are to handle a military ground war of any magnitude. We have damned near exhausted our…
"engagement with them gives them legitimacy."
@larryB- If that's true, then does the prosecution by the legal systems of the federal and state governments give Trump and his "associates" legitimacy? If the answer to that question is "yes", then it …
@BenWP- Well, to me it looks as if there is more than one path to the future. I think that it's healthy to let this play out and see which way turns out to be the most efficient. There's even room for Musk in this- he's helped to push the technology…
@MikeM- Yes sir, sad but true is exactly right. The exact same is also true of Trump. But ignoring these "patriots" simply allows their brand of lies, misinformation, and "alternate facts" to fester, gain converts, set us against each other, and poi…
"when you look behind the bullshit numbers that the govt and their media shills put out you would have no idea that inflation could easily get even worse, many layoffs starting to happen, many companies going bankrupt, crime is out of control...."
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He's a "moderate" all right... a moderatel fascist.
fascist:
• a person who is extremely right-wing or authoritarian
• a person who is very intolerant or domineering
He must believe that all of those people recently indicted in Washington and Geor…
A "moderate", says you, a dogmatic right-wing ideologue, as evidenced by your seditious description of the President of the United States as a “Bolshevik”.
Seditious: rabble-rousing, provocative, inflammatory, subversive, troublemaking; rebellious…
You far-right hard-liners love to complain about “the "crazy political rantings that have infested every thread on here”, "mostly the commie liberal snowflake variety". That's a direct quote. ✲
Yet it is manifestly true and factual that the great…
@msf, @yogibearbull- Well then, I guess that I'll continue to jaywalk and hope that Rudy is preoccupied with other matters. The odds are pretty good on that. Thanks to both of you for your thoughts on this.
@msf- Well, now I'm really uncertain of how to proceed. Perhaps I wasn't clear- I do realize that infringement is technically involved: my hope is simply that the original sources will adjudge it as to be relatively harmless and of good intent.
If…
It was the biglyist perfectest phone call ever made, rforno. It was you that I called, but you are such a loser that you didn't even answer. (What's your number again?)
I'm going to contact @David_Snowball and see if he can't "find" a couple of votes for me to be elected MFO clown of the month. That will be a perfect email, too.
@msf- Hello there- yes, I do realize that property rights go beyond making money, and that strictly speaking, I should somehow request permission to republish almost anything from an outside source. As a practical matter though, that isn't really po…
11:23 PDT- This just in from the Washington Post :
U.S. intelligence officials are considering the possibility that the plane believed to be carrying Wagner Group chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin crashed after an explosion aboard, according to a U.S. of…
"the ex-president would be required to serve prison time"
Yes, sounds very good to me also, but you just know that he will delay, appeal, delay, appeal... all the way up to HIS Supreme Court who will likely find that the whole thing is unconstituti…
@Crash- Yeah, your new hed is right on. This morning's WSJ reports that many inside Russia believe that the plane was taken down by a ground-fired missile. Seems like a waste of a perfectly good airplane. Some of the others were in fact Wagner high-…
The "crazy political rantings that have infested every thread on here" have typically been initiated by you right-wing fanatics.
As evidenced by this thread.
Anything that you don't agree with is of course "the commie liberal snowflake variety". Y…
@yogibearbull- This is very weird, because
If I go to: https://client.schwab.com/Areas/Trade/FixedIncomeSearch/FISearch.aspx/Treasuries
I wind up on the "Find Bonds & Fixed Income" page,
and then in the Or Search by CUSIP box I enter: …
About reproducing the Krugman columns:
I do sometimes transcribe published emails or web articles in their entirety, for instance from Marketplace, Matt Levine, NPR and the Guardian. However, those sources are free and don't require a subscription.…
Oh, yes. The fanatics of the right are going to do everything in their power to shut down the government and McCarthy this time, after losing the last battle a few months ago.
