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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Agree 100%.
  2. Mistaking pedantry for skepticism of the press and adherence to the truth is what got us here.
  3. Nuance is a part of everything. So, it depends. 9/11 - terrorism, more than obviously. Most recent missile attack in Ukraine? It's too soon to know for sure, but it appears to me to be collateral damage. Was it really "indiscriminate bombings of civilians?" Was the hotel the intended target? From what I understand, Russia frequently targets that city because it's Zelensky's hometown. Can they aim the missile used with pinpoint accuracy? Did it hit its intended target? The intel failure surrounding 9/11 isn't the same thing as what has happened here. It's not in the same ballpark; it's not even the same fucking sport. The Newsweek article, which is the one I was talking about as being flawed information, did not use Tenet as a source. People have got to be able to recognize bias, misinformation and propaganda. Especially now that so much of the "media" is solely focused on making money and journalistic integrity is a quaint concept from the past. Look at the headline: "Missile Strike on Americans." Really? Was the missile strike intentionally aimed at Americans, like the headline would lead you to believe? Or is it that there just happened to be Americans staying at the hotel that was hit? (No Americans were injured or killed, by the way.) Why would the Russians target Americans now? Right after our president just publicly sucked off Putin? Putin's going to do something to turn the American people against Trump at the moment he has us right where he wants us? That doesn't make any fucking sense.
  4. Look, "terrorism" is a loaded word and I understand that the definition has changed a lot, but acts of war between two nations doesn't even fit the current broad definition of terrorism. Was the firebombing of London an act of terrorism? The Tet offensive? If you want to change the definition so you get to use that word for more effect, well then okay. But it's hardly worth getting into a semantic argument over it. I fucking hate Trump and everything he's doing as much as anyone. I totally agree that refusing to share intel here is disgusting and could, and probably will, lead to deaths, civilian and otherwise. Here is the point I was trying to make: Trump and his people feast on untruth. They use hyperbole and just outright made up shit and people believe it and base their votes on it. The linked story relied on "political commentators" as its "source." Don't fucking lie, don't quote news stories based on what political commentators say and don't say "terrorism" when it's fucking not. Don't be like Trump and the fucking Orwellian GOP.
  5. Did you read the article? "Political commentators have blamed the U.S.'s decision to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine for a Russian missile strike that hit a hotel in Kryvyi Rih where Americans were staying." Who are these political commentators? What information do they have? Also, not a terrorist attack.
  6. Polyanna Sweet Summer Child high on hopium here. My issue with it is that it is wanting bad shit to happen to prove that bad shit is going to happen (that hasn't happened yet and might not happen). That's departing from "I want bad things to happen to them so can understand they are wrong" to "I want bad things to happen to them because they are wrong." Lapses in intel allowing for terrorist attacks haven't happened yet. Are there any documented instances of people dying because of lost USAID programs? I'm just not in favor of hyperbole to prove a point here. There's enough untruth without adding to it.
  7. One of the best posts on this board.
  8. I just hope they can hang on until the midterm rebuke or the assassination, the depantsing by the courts, whichever comes first.
  9. I hope they do. It's going to royally fuck up the economy and cause massive inflation. Bring it fucking on. Tariffs have got to be the dumbest way to try to equalize a trade imbalance because the other country can reciprocate. What's even dumber is that Trump didn't even seem to think of that. Let them reap what they sow. It's the only way now.
  10. Mich. Sen. Elissa Slotkin.
  11. Same. For me it's also the realization that only very few things actually matter and that I have so much fucking shit going on at all times that the irrelevant and pointless gets filtered out way fast. I'm sure I come off sometimes as a dismissive, rude prick, but that doesn't matter, so I don't care.
  12. That would be some pretty terrible luck.
  13. Owning the libs. Duh.
  14. I mean, I wouldn't be sad if there was a "Designated Survivor" type event during the speech. A "wildfire storage facility exploding under the Sept of Baelor" image would be very pleasing, actually.
  15. Sunday my wife called me and said, "This afternoon Oldest Son has a baseball game at the same time as his Scouts meeting so you don't need to take him to Scouts." Me: "Ok." She called to tell me about something I didn't need to do. Plus, I already knew this because, you know, the whole "can't be two places" at once problem. As I age, my inner dialogue is populated with the phrase, "Why are you bothering me, bitch?" more and more.
  16. Entirely possible. In my version of the analogy, though, Trump et al. are at the playing with matches stage.
  17. Nah, Putin's America.
  18. Counter-counterpoint - people ultimately care way more about money than fringe social issues. As soon as Joe MAGAT starts paying noticeably higher prices, can't get certain products and his 401(k) balance drops by 25% I think you'll see they care way less about the trans basketball player. I've been paying attention. I see what I see and I don't see what I don't see. I look out the window and I don't see America as a smoldering husk of its former self. Not right now, anyway.
  19. I'm not in the "democracy is over" camp...yet. I continue to say that this is the cartoon version of a fascist/oligarchical takeover of the U.S. Yes, some actual, real shit is happening and there are some people who are actually being affected by the implementation of Trump's policies, but it's not over yet. I fail to see how the President can shutter a federal agency (USAID) that has been funded by Congress, for example. That issue has yet to be fully taken up by the courts. My tipping point will be either when SCOTUS openly forsakes the Constitution or if the President and executive branch refuse to abide by a court order. I foresee a lot of this shit being overturned and rolled back; most of it, actually. I also foresee inflation going up, jobs reports going more negative and the economy entering recession. The midterms are going to be a fucking bloodbath for the GOP and the Trumpanzee will be emasculated with two years to go.
  20. It has to come from the populace. Politicians don't create the message so much as follow it. If disavowing Ukraine and disrespecting its wartime leader is unpopular among Americans, the politicians will follow. But there has to be massive upswell to leave no doubt. Protests, social media posts, civil disobedience, every possible way of showing that the people of the United States are not for this.
  21. Just watched the video. Jesus God. Shame and cringe don't even begin to describe it. Has an American president, or any other foreign leader in history, openly lambasted another foreign leader in public like that? And Vance, the little mutt, piling on for favor from the master. I just....
  22. Trump stooge and bizarro cabinet ghoul lies to the public and does counterproductive shit that will harm Americans and make fraud, waste and abuse more likely. News at 11.
  23. Well, as giant as it could be.
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