There is some extremely powerful messaging filling GOP and GOP-leaning Americans with tons of propaganda.
OUR messaging has not been nearly as pervasive.
People who reference people like Goebbels neglect to make the comparison between radio messages and leaflets and today’s non-stop 24/7/365 multiple sourced messaging.
The NY Times reports Biden’s commandeering of commercial aircraft as if it were a stain and further proof of his incompetence. I’ve had it with them.
And don’t forget, no air conditioning in Qatar!
Biden has a Team. I know he is using it. Given the dynamics of our political system, this is to be expected.
Indignation (Biden’s or any top Democrat) is not a good tactic right now and, in my estimation, S1 and the Infrastructure Bills are no less important now than a few weeks ago.
Greenspan and Todd and their takes on Afghanistan are to be expected.
I’ve been to Afhhanistan. Admittedly it was 50 years ago. But I will wager Mr Fox tough guy hasn’t been there and has zero idea how tough a Pashtun man is. He should investigate what those folks do for fun and sport … Buzkashi. Polo with a dead goat. At the tournament I witnessed in Kabul in 1970 the referees banned the players from carrying pistols due to errant bullets landing in the crowd. This was not “Lawn tennis with the Queen” y’understand.
A majority of the men I saw while there were armed, that’s police, local military and civilian so walking down the street as Mr Tough Guy thinks would not be so simple an operation. I saw 12 year old kids with AK’s.
In my experience “tough guys” aren’t tough. They’re blow hards. Cowards.
Has the NYT deigned to notice the hurricane headed their way yet?
(It looks like it’s shifted east and is going to miss NYT proper, but non-hurricane heavy rain can still do plenty of damage. Stay safe)
It looks pretty tame right now, just rain some wind at times. So I think I’m safe. Thanks.
But the NY Times couldn’t be much bothered with the hurricane. Not enough disaster there to spotlight. And of course no way to blame Biden.
He should have nuked it while it was still well off the coast.
Kind of like the look on fi’s face while looking directly at the eclipse.
Every Texas voter should be handed a card with this printed on it.
There was a time when my brain would spin whenever I hear that “personal freedom” argument. Now, I’ve just accepted that the person who is trying to tell someone they can’t have a medical procedure because “they” believe something different, is just plain stupid. Idiotic. Dumb. Fucking Crazy! Polio, tuberculosis, smallpox, measles, etc… Ways to kill, maim or disable humans that have been shown that when a scientific effort towards curing or at the least inhibiting said disease, WORKS!. Vaccinated, masked or not. You can’t get away from the stupid. They are determined to be in charge. Determined to get their way. Cuz, socialism, ya know! Says the ignorant, superstitious,willful idiot .
With the skip over AM radio, I heard that as tots and pears… not an appetizing mix…well maybe for Geatz… whoo ha…
They had to know this was coming. You do not take on Nancy Pelosi for “light and transient reasons” in the words of Thomas Jefferson. Wait until the get to meet Ms. Nancy’s friend who is leaning toward running for elective office in THEIR district.
The best part of the Mango dripped down Fred’s leg. SAD.
I think the fix was in a long time ago. Ghani and Karzai were corruptly cutting their own deals with the Taliban the same time they were negotiating with us. Ghani, Karzai AND the Taliban wanted to drain as much $$$ from the US as possible for as long as possible. Biden saw what was happening and said enough. The rest is history.
Ghani and Karzai will be back in Afghanistan in a new roles within the Taliban government by the end of September 2021.
Hard to imagine Ghani ever being accepted by any Pashtun ever for the way he shattered Pashtunwali, the code a Pashtun lives by that is way older and far more intrenched than even Islam is.
I was just making a comment on the graph: the evangelicals were not appreciably higher than other cranks when it came to doubting the moon landing, which happened roughly 50 years ago.
Exactly. The Texas Supreme Court may be made of Republicans, but they’re not stupid. They can see the problems with the anti-mask mandate. The easy thing for them to do is not to confront Abbott directly, but to just slow-walk this.
Funny things happen when good sense and logic are ignored…you lose.
The general good healthcare response in the pandemic was to protect hospitals, doctors, staff, and caregivers generally – from the start of the pandemic. Finnish hospital administrators, for example, explained to staff in February 2020 that this was not going to be just a marathon, but an ultramarathon that could last a couple years. During that time, staff had to keep themselves healthy, take breaks, and normal healthcare provision had to continue at the same time. That meant keeping hospital beds empty, or at least down around 50% capacity. When I had covid, for example, I was given heparin shots to self-administer while at home throughout my 10-day quarantine. A nurse called every day to check my condition and recovery. The hospital was off limits. Instead, a health care center with many nurses and doctors was designated as solely for covid patients and all my visits were to that place.
Which raises the question, how has Texas gotten its pandemic response so wrong? I also wonder if this problem is unique to Texas. Idaho and Alaska also did very little to prevent their precious health resources from being overwhelmed.
