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Nebraska traitors, including the frontrunner for governor. Seeing Red Nebraska

To clarify, are you stating you still believe that Alec Baldwin's production company controlled the production for the movie, or that Wikipedia confused you? I am always curious how much the delusional will double-down on stupid shit.

After doing a Google search, I see zero sources claiming that Baldwin owns Rust Movie Production, LLC, despite the various sources indicating they are doing an internal investigation and even a FoxNews article that says the company is likely covered by insurance. LA Times indicate it was financed by BondIt Media Capital and CAA Media Finance. Even if he did, the whole point of a single purpose LLC is to protect the owners from financial liability. Care to cite your sources? Or just admit you’re making up bullshit on the intrawebs.

Ousucks sucks.

NE1 Rep, Jeff Fortenberry, indicted for lying to FBI regarding illegal Nigerian campaign contributions. Doesn’t matter, Nebraska.

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At the Huskies game. First football game in two years. First PAC12 game.

1. The Trump-Biden vote is an anomaly. The current NE-2 is definitely Republican. In the Congressional race, the Republican incumbent won by 4, and the only time a D won the seat in the last 20 years is when a tea-party 3rd part candidate split the R vote in 2014. I think the district is currently listed as R+4, and I'm betting this will likely take it to R+6. It turns an R lean into a likely, or maybe even a safe. 2. I hate this notion that a fair compromise is to hold serve, or slightly lose. The population trends should take bias the district blue over time. Instead, every ten years a Republican Unicameral gerrymanders the district to preserve the status quo from the previous gerrymandering. The census shows the urban population in the district was underrepresented in 2020. The R+4 should have been more like an R+2 (just as a hypothetical). Instead of drawing the lines to pull back from the the rural areas, this map cuts out a central corridor of the metro area, and adds in a Saunders County, which is due north of Lincoln. It is absolute fuckery, and is justified as preserving the previous decades fuckery. I get it that you are not claiming this to be a fair compromise, just an acceptable one. FWIW, it hasn't completely passed yet, just the first round of votes.

The initial plan died in filibuster Friday. Trump did relatively poorly in NE2 in 2020. The Republican Congressman won by 5. This map takes a Dem out of contention for a bit.

Nebraska map out of committee this week. After Biden picking up NE-2, Republicans will split of a section of Douglas County (Omaha) into NE-1 (Lincoln’s district) while adding a rural county to balance it.

I'd guess that unvaccinated Dem voters are also more likely to be young, if for no other reason that Dems tend to be younger. So, it is likely the actual deaths are skewed more heavily at Republicans than what the vaccinated percentages would suggest.

So, your point was that even though there is little variations amongst the racial demographics, you decided you would blame black people? Or was it that you thought that you would use black people as a proxy for blaming democrats, even through the statistics are extremely clear that democrats are more likely to be vaccinated? What was your fucking point?

Ben Franklin had been one of the original antivaxer media personalities, back in the infancy of vaccines and newspapers. Back then, vaccines consisted of drawing a string through a pustule of a small pox victim, letting the string dry, and then inserting the string in a cut made on the person being inoculated. It was new, and really counterintuitive, so he and his brother railed against it in their newspaper. This is what Ben had to say about the experience in his autobiography:

Jesus you're a fucking clown. Please tell me where anybody said there was no reason for Americans to worry about staying in Afghanistan after the US military pulled out. Seriously, go fuck yourself.

It was explained to him a few days ago. He is acting in bad faith.

The goal posts are well traveled.

You should really try studying American history sometime. Because whatever the fuck you learned, wasn't it.

So, what you believe the deal included expelling (or, what, handing over) any AQ in the country. It didn't. There is a shit ton of grey area in the "to use the soil of Afghanistan to threaten the security of the United States and its allies" portion. In the last year, has al Queda attacked or threatened an attack on the US from Afghani positions? If your criteria to adherence was whether an AQ remained in the country, it was broken on the first day and every day since. There was no time line for the removal of AQ, and no clear designation of whether a person could simply state he was no longer AQ and that would suffice. But, what is clear is that the UN was designated as the arbiter as whether the deal was broken. Right? So, show me where the UN is saying the Taliban broke the deal. What they do acknowledge is that the Taliban was working towards reigning in AQ in the country, even if it could be reversed easily. And to be clear, if you want to read the betrayal of our allies in Afghanistan, read those four pages again. It is straight up "America First" idiocy from beginning to end. Trump didn't require amnesty for our allies. He didn't require human rights protections, including provisions for women and minority rights. The whole fucking thing was written with a campaign in mind, and Trump being able to say he found peace in a way that protected American security, and worried about absolutely nothing else.

Oh, and sure, let's ask the UN. And then we can use more current quotes, in context, and link the sources. From April '21: UN Docs The UN is not saying the Taliban has violated the treaty.

So, just to keep track of the trajectory of the goal posts, that's not the same thing you were saying previously. Agree?

Matt Gaetz is willing to give the youth of Afghanistan a chance.

So, he would have pulled out the equipment before the troops? (Actually, he might have.) Seriously, do you think Biden was involved the logistics of retreat? Do you think Trump would have been? Fucking delusional man.

I would take an Afghanistan that resembled Iran in a heartbeat. The pre-911 Taliban was way the fuck worse than Iran. I don't really give a shit if Afghanistan is democratic, but Iran actually has some functioning democratic structures, even if they can be effectively vetoed by the religious council. At this point, it's hard to see that vision for Afghanistan as anything but a best case scenario.

Yes, consider this. On September 10, 2001, the Taliban and the Northern Alliance were engaged in an active civil war that was essentially at a stand-still, with the NA holding regions in the North and the Taliban holding the rest of the country. On September 10, 2021, after the US has spent, what, 2 trillion dollars and lost 3000 servicemen, the Taliban will likely hold the entire country, albeit with resistance in some regions. That simple statement is likely too simple, making it look worse than it should. But it's still pretty fucked up.

Biden's treatment of the Kurdish issue is something worth keeping an eye one. Early on the Iraqi occupation, Biden traveled to Iraqi Kurdistan. He advocated the psuedo-breakup of the Iraq into Kurd, Sunni, and Shiite regions, which is very much in line with Kurdish goals. Maybe at this point, there really isn't much that would be practical to help the Kurds. But I could see it being one of the foreign policy issues that Biden would take a personal interest in to the point of challenging the State recommendations on. Ukraine would be another, but there are so many political landmines around that, he would likely be wary of getting too involved.