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Well the latent wit in some of the Subject headings may confuse e.g. The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness for Baraq Obama :-D

I'm trying to teach GPT4.o. So far it's been ... interesting. It can whip out a graphic off a verbal description that hits close to the mark, but is unable to access web pages, hence my effort to get it to catalog topics here and hence help my neurodiverse brain from running off the rails seeking this topic or that has yet to bear fruit. It's the end of the semester and I have a large RFP running full bore that I want to complete in advance of retirement, but once I have some time on my hands I'm going to attempt to drop every list topic into 4.0 and see if "she" can keep 'em straight for me.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Media, Ministry of Truth Issues, "Far Right"
« Last post by Body-by-Guinness on May 21, 2024, 06:39:39 AM »
Yes.  What is far right?  As you say, to them it is anyone who opposes the crazy Direction they are trying to take us in.

To me, conservative is short for common sense conservatism.  If it isn't aligned with common sense, it probably isn't conservative.

Same goes for libertarian. Supporting Liberty is the default position. Opposing tyranny, same.

None of that means anarchy or no government.  Just the opposite. If Government stopped doing all the other things, they could focus so much better on basic governing, roads, libraries and providing for the common defense.

All this other stuff is the extremism. Taking from some to give to others, spending 40% more than we take in, scraping the genitals off of children and calling it gender affirmation.

They think opposing all of that is extremism. Are they f'ing nuts?

They control nearly 100% of all information flow, from K through 12 to college to the networks to the Big Tech' social media, and they still can't get 50% support for the craziness.

George Orwell had no idea what he was starting.

If they couldn't cast aspersions they'd run out of "arguments" pretty darn quickly. It's amusing how the side of the aisle that can find "racist dogwhistles" just about anywhere if they look hard enough feign oblivion to a far more concrete tactic they embrace that claims some sort of tangential association is proof positive right wing authoritarianism.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Politics by Lawfare, and the Law of War
« Last post by ccp on May 21, 2024, 06:37:02 AM »
Unless he already discussed this , this topic would make for an informative show for Mark Levin.
Did anyone copy him ?

He could have Dershowitz on and they take a look at this through a legal political and Constitutional lens.
I find both teach me things few others do.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Media, Ministry of Truth Issues, "Far Right"
« Last post by DougMacG on May 21, 2024, 06:33:51 AM »
Yes.  What is far right?  As you say, to them it is anyone who opposes the crazy Direction they are trying to take us in.

To me, conservative is short for common sense conservatism.  If it isn't aligned with common sense, it probably isn't conservative.

Same goes for libertarian. Supporting Liberty is the default position. Opposing tyranny, same.

None of that means anarchy or no government.  Just the opposite. If Government stopped doing all the other things, they could focus so much better on basic governing, roads, libraries and providing for the common defense.

All this other stuff is the extremism. Taking from some to give to others, spending 40% more than we take in, scraping the genitals off of children and calling it gender affirmation.

They think opposing all of that is extremism. Are they f'ing nuts?

They control nearly 100% of all information flow, from K through 12 to college to the networks to the Big Tech' social media, and they still can't get 50% support for the craziness.

George Orwell had no idea what he was starting.
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Politics & Religion / 2024, Trump visits swing state Minnesota
« Last post by DougMacG on May 21, 2024, 06:16:51 AM »
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/trump-comes-to-town-2.php

Link to full video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeopSwEgXjI&ab_channel=RightSideBroadcastingNetwork
VP(?) Burgum at 2:00.00, Trump at 2:15.00.

Long speech.  I didn't agree with or like all of it, but he makes some very powerful points, and he is the last man standing against the march to Leftism, failure and collapse.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Media, Ministry of Truth Issues, "Far Right"
« Last post by Body-by-Guinness on May 21, 2024, 06:14:19 AM »
There is no 'right', only "Far Right".

"Far-right Geert Wilders announces new Dutch government deal"
https://www.politico.eu/article/geert-wilders-new-netherlands-government-far-right/

"Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other party leaders have agreed on a coalition deal that veers the Netherlands toward the hard right."
https://apnews.com/hub/geert-wilders#

"Dutch far right-led government set for clashes with Brussels"
https://www.ft.com/content/45d0221f-5664-4f73-b0a6-dcb177ff4944
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Only on fora like these was the election of Obama or Biden called a Sharp Turn to the Far Left.  To our media, the hard Left, children changing genders and industries taken over by government, is just a return to normal.

And to me, what they call Far Right is just a return to common sense.  Netherlands is a place where you might find Dutch people and public sidewalks are a place you might walk down.

I just posted a similar piece in the Milei thread where his tour of Spain/Europe is being covered as some sort of "far right" listening tour.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Politics by Lawfare, and the Law of War
« Last post by Body-by-Guinness on May 21, 2024, 06:04:39 AM »
Twitter is not posting for me, but I think myself sufficiently informed as to the point to heartily agree.  Witness e.g. what they have done to John Eastman.

Here's a quick, greasy cut and paste:

LAWFARE: Will there be any Republican Lawyers Left to Ensure Election Integrity in November?
Democrats have aggressively targeted over 400 Republican lawyers and politicians with criminal charges, civil lawsuits, and disbarment proceedings ahead of the upcoming presidential election. They have successfully jailed Peter Navarro, with Steve Bannon expected to join him shortly. In multiple states, Democrats have pursued criminal charges against dozens of Republican lawyers and politicians, including:
Georgia: 19 Republicans arrested and charged
Arizona: 18 Republicans arrested and charged
Michigan: 16 Republicans arrested and charged
Nevada: 6 Republicans arrested and charged
Pennsylvania & Wisconsin: Are still conducting criminal investigations into as many as 30 Republicans who have yet to be charged
In addition to these criminal trials, Democrats are pursuing numerous efforts to have Republican lawyers disbarred. The Soros-backed 65 Project has filed disbarment proceedings against more than 100 Republican lawyers, which prevent many of these lawyers from working until the proceedings are concluded. In almost every case, the charges lack merit, but they have three primary impacts: a chilling effect that discourages other Republican lawyers and politicians from helping Trump, a financial drain on the resources of Republicans who might otherwise use their funds to help elect Trump, and a time drain that physically keeps them busy during the campaign.
This weekend, Arizona Democrats even crashed Rudy Giuliani's 80th birthday party to serve him with a criminal indictment. One day earlier, the same Democrats arrested John Eastman, President Trump's former attorney. His indictment and arrest are shocking because he was never involved with any litigation or hearings in Arizona and never talked to anyone there during or after the election. Additionally, he's facing disbarment in California after a judge recommended his removal as a lawyer.
Make no mistake, the Democrats are conducting a well-funded, well-organized effort to remove as many Republicans as possible from the November election process. Their goal is to prevent Republicans from ensuring the integrity of the election and protecting the sanctity of your vote. This is a war on the 6th Amendment—everyone, including President Trump and Republican candidates, deserves the right to legal representation. Democrats are working overtime to ensure that doesn’t happen in November.
UPDATE: Some people have asked for some details about the people who have been targeted. Here is a partial list:
Georgia:
Donald Trump - Former President
Rudy Giuliani - Former New York Mayor and Trump attorney
Mark Meadows - Former White House Chief of Staff
John Eastman - Conservative lawyer, former dean of Chapman University Law School
Kenneth Chesebro - Lawyer involved in election manipulation plans
Sidney Powell - Attorney involved in hiring forensic experts for voting system breaches
Jeffrey Clark - Former DOJ official
Jenna Ellis - Trump lawyer
David Shafer - Former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party
Shawn Still - Georgia state senator
Harrison Floyd - Leader of "Black Voices for Trump"
Trevian Kutti - Publicist, former associate of Kanye West
Robert Cheeley - Georgia trial lawyer
Mike Roman - Trump campaign official
Stephen Lee - Lutheran pastor
Ray Smith - Lawyer who represented the Trump campaign in Georgia
Scott Hall - Bail bondsman involved in the Coffee County voting system breach
Cathy Latham - Former Coffee County GOP chair and fake elector
Misty Hampton - Former Coffee County elections supervisor involved in the voting system breach
Arizona:
Rudy Giuliani - Former Trump attorney, involved in promoting false claims of election fraud.
Mark Meadows - Former White House Chief of Staff.
John Eastman - Lawyer who devised legal strategies to overturn the election.
Christina Bobb - Attorney associated with Rudy Giuliani and a Republican National Committee official.
Jenna Ellis - Lawyer who worked with Giuliani.
Boris Epshteyn - 2020 Trump campaign aide.
Mike Roman - Director of Election Day operations for the Trump campaign.
Tyler Bowyer - Republican National Committee member and COO of Turning Point Action.
Nancy Cottle - Chair of the Arizona Republican Presidential Electors.
Jake Hoffman - Arizona state senator.
Anthony Kern - Arizona state senator.
James Lamon - 2022 U.S. Senate candidate and chair of Depcom Power.
Robert Montgomery - Former Cochise County Republican Committee chair.
Samuel Moorhead - Former Gila County Republican Party head.
Loraine Pellegrino - Secretary of the Arizona Republican fake presidential electors.
Gregory Safsten - Former Executive Director of the Arizona Republican Party.
Kelli Ward - Former Arizona Republican Party chair and former state senator.
Michael Ward - Republican activist and husband of Kelli Ward.
Michigan:
Kathy Berden - Michigan Republican National Committee member.
William (Hank) Choate - Former chair of the Jackson County Republican Party.
Amy Facchinello - Trustee on the Grand Blanc Board of Education.
Clifford Frost - GOP activist from Warren.
Meshawn Maddock - Former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party.
Marian Sheridan - Grassroots vice chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party.
Kent Vanderwood - Mayor of Wyoming, Michigan.
Stanley Grot - Shelby Township clerk.
Rose Rook - GOP activist from Paw Paw.
John Haggard - Former GOP candidate for state representative.
Mari-Ann Henry - GOP activist from Brighton.
Timothy King - GOP activist from Ypsilanti.
James Renner - GOP activist from Lansing.
Mayra Rodriguez - GOP activist from Grosse Pointe Farms.
Ken Thompson - GOP activist from Orleans.
Michele Lundgren - GOP activist from Detroit.
Nevada:
Michael McDonald - Chair of the Nevada Republican Party.
Jim DeGraffenreid - Nevada GOP national committeeman.
Jesse Law - Chair of the Clark County Republican Party.
Eileen Rice - GOP activist.
Durward James Hindle III - GOP activist.
Shawn Meehan - GOP activist.
Disbarment (65 Project):
John Eastman
Rudy Giuliani
Sidney Powell
Jenna Ellis
Cleta Mitchell
Stefan Passantino
Michael McDonald
Jim DeGraffenreid
Jesse Law
Emily Newman
Kurt Olsen
William Olson
Lynn Fitch (Mississippi Attorney General)
Steven Marshall (Alabama Attorney General)
Patrick Morrisey (West Virginia Attorney General)
Leslie Rutledge (Arkansas Attorney General)
Derek Schmidt (Kansas Attorney General)
Eric Schmitt (Missouri Attorney General)
Tim Fox (Former Montana Attorney General)
Sean Reyes (Utah Attorney General)
Herbert Slatery (Former Tennessee Attorney General)
Jeff Landry (Louisiana Attorney General)
Curtis Hill (Former Indiana Attorney General)
Mike Hunter (Oklahoma Attorney General)
Douglas Peterson (Nebraska Attorney General)
Ashley Moody (Florida Attorney General)
Alan Wilson (South Carolina Attorney General)
Kevin Koons
William Bock
Jeffrey Gallant
Daniel Eastman
Michael Dean
Robert Citak
James Knauer
Richard Coleson
Courtney Milbank
Howard Kleinhendler
Brandon Johnson
Melana Siebert
Julia Haller
James Bopp
Kenneth Klukowski
Kenneth Chesebro
Stefanie Lynn Junttila Esq. (MI) - Disbarment Letter12
Gregory Rohl Esq. (MI) - Disbarment Letter13
Scott Hagerstrom Esq. (MI) - Disbarment Letter14
Julia Z. Haller Esq. (DC)
Brandon Johnson Esq. (DC)
Lin Wood Esq. (GA)
Howard Kleinhendler Esq. (NY)
Emily Newman Esq. (VA)
Sidney Powell Esq. (TX)
Kurt Olsen Esq. (MD) - Disbarment Letter16
William Olson Esq. (VA) - Disbarment Letter17
John Eastman Esq. (DC) - Disbarment Letter18
Kenneth Klukowski Esq. (DC) - Disbarment Letter19
Kenneth Chesebro Esq. (NY) - Disbarment Letter20
Jenna Ellis Esq. (PA & CO) - Disbarment Letter21
Linda Kerns Esq. (PA) - Disbarment Letter22
Bruce Marks Esq. (PA) - Disbarment Letter23
James Bopp Esq. (PA) - Disbarment Letter24
Ronald Hicks Esq. (PA) - Disbarment Letter25
Carolyn B. McGee Esq. (PA) - Disbarment Letter26
Anita Milanovich Esq. (PA) - Disbarment Letter27
Marc Scaringi Esq. (PA)- Disbarment Letter28
Brian Caffrey Esq. (PA) - Disbarment Letter29
Walter Zimolong Esq. (PA) - Disbarment Letter30
Senator Ted Cruz Esq. (TX) - Disbarment Letter31
Cleta Mitchell Esq. (DC) - Disbarment Letter32
Joseph diGenova Esq. (DC) - Disbarment Letter33
Boris Epshteyn Esq. (NY) - Disbarment Letter34
Paul Davis Esq. (TX) - Disbarment Letter35
William Calhoun Esq. (GA) - Disbarment Letter36
James Troupis Esq. (WI) - Disbarment Letter37
There are many more... I've written about the effort in multiple places:
https://politiquerepublic.substack.com/p/the-lefts-war-on-the-6th-amendment?utm_source=publication-search
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Politics & Religion / Re: Political Economics
« Last post by Body-by-Guinness on May 21, 2024, 06:02:23 AM »


https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/05/Screenshot_2024-05-19_182649.png

I wish the graph would post.

Change in household net worth under Trump, and under Biden. 

Chart 1, nominal gains, they look pretty similar, nice gains. 

Chart 2, after inflation, good gains under Trump.  Zero under Biden.

Four wasted years.

Whoa, that's a telling graph! Tee shirt material, IMO, and I nominate Paul Krugman to recieve this tattoo across his chest, backwards, so he can view it in the mirror every morning.
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