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Politics & Religion / Re: Bridges and Infrastructure
« on: Today at 06:26:32 AM »
https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/editorials/baltimore-bridge-sc-ports-charleston-scdot/article_50948158-ec46-11ee-a06c-e7f7c61b6020.html

If you're making 6 digit salaries in port safety, all these ideas coming out in hindsight would have been good ideas in foresight as well.

But 3 years focus on mid gender bathrooms can be all consuming.

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Science, Culture, & Humanities / Re: Invisibility Shield?
« on: March 28, 2024, 07:00:30 PM »
Ok this is really cool.

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Politics & Religion / Re: California Judge Disbars Trump Lawyer
« on: March 28, 2024, 12:31:59 PM »
Outrageous.  Chapman was Dean of the Chapman University Law School.

Zacarias Moussaoui has a right to have legal counsel advocate on his behalf.  Donald Trump doesn't.

Of course they are trying to scare all good lawyers from ever assisting Trump.

I think it's called, operation backfire.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Meghan Kelly on drudgereport
« on: March 28, 2024, 12:03:55 PM »
Maybe so but I think something else happened.  It was speculated that it was sold. Drudge must have had a non-disclosure because he wouldn't speak about the change.

It used to be one of the top sites on the internet. He broke the story of Monica Lewinsky. I think Breitbart worked for him.

Then one day you and I noticed there were nothing but left-wing stories there.

Now it seems that Drudge isn't one of the top 1000 websites in the world.
https://ahrefs.com/top

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Politics & Religion / Re: Bridges and Infrastructure
« on: March 28, 2024, 10:28:56 AM »
let me get this straight

of 4 listed missing in the bridge collapse

one from Mexico
one from Guatemala
one from El Salvador
one from Honduras

you know what I am wondering.

I think they were in a work truck on the bridge.  Yes they might be ... the word we're not supposed to use.

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Politics & Religion / RFK Jr. is not a libertarian or a conservative
« on: March 28, 2024, 10:26:56 AM »
This point is already moot but let's bury it forever. This guy is a radical left winger and I hope he takes away all the radical left wing votes he can get. He is a name caller and a hater with vitriol way preceding what they think is offensive from DJT.

I tried to find uotes and links from someone else's compilation. (Older source links disappearing)

https://www.independentsentinel.com/rfk-endorses-aocs-green-new-deal-calls-for-climate-taxation/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/23/robert-kennedy-jr-we-need-laws-punish-global-warmi/

Hog farmers(?) a bigger threat than Osama bin Laden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWQ8KHj8Az4

https://www.climatedepot.com/2014/09/21/robert-f-kennedy-jr-wants-to-jail-his-political-opponents-accuses-koch-brothers-of-treason-they-ought-to-be-serving-time-for-it/

6/24/2007 on "Hardball", blamed the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center on President Reagan’s rollback of CAFE standards in 1986.
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Many of the problems of today, Kennedy traced back to actions taken by Reagan. Kennedy believes the American people are fed a media diet of right-wing propaganda, and it "all started in 1988 when Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine said that the airwaves belong to the public. They were public-trust assets, like air and water, and broadcasters could be licensed to use them" but they must use them in the public interest and to advance democracy.

If the Fairness Doctrine was still in place, "You could not have a Fox News," he said, nor a Rush Limbaugh, for that matter. But the doctrine is gone and Fox and Limbaugh are here. Quoting Pew Research, Kennedy said, 30 percent of Americans now get their news from talk radio, which is 90 percent dominated by the right. Another large number of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News, which Kennedy clearly believed would be better named Faux News.
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2/8/2014, On Friday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell gave left-wing environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a platform to denounce the Keystone Pipeline. Kennedy ranted: "The people who are promoting this are the Koch brothers, who spent $2 million trying to hurt him [Obama], the Tea Party people in Congress, and the Republicans who have been trying to block every part of his agenda.
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3/7/2012  “Speaking of prostitutes, big oil’s top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers,” the New York-based environmentalist wrote Tuesday on Twitter.
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11/16/2011  President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Robert Kennedy, Jr., netted a $1.4 billion bailout for his company, BrightSource, through a loan guarantee issued by a former employee-turned Department of Energy official.  It’s just one more in a string of eye-opening revelations by investigative journalist and Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer in his explosive new book, Throw Them All Out.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Charlie Crist, Attacks Tea Party
10/13/10  Kennedy is asked about the tea party and why he is demonizing them, he responds by calling them 'crackpots'.
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RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC
Washington Examiner ^ | February 7, 2010 | David Freddoso

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.

"In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today's anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don't own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.
"In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington's C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate.

"Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy."
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6/13/2009, Boston Herald
JACKSON, Miss. - Robert Kennedy Jr. says that some right-wing broadcast hosts are feeding the sort of hatred behind this year.
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2008: "The stuff that ACORN was involved in really was people who were working for ACORN defrauding ACORN."
https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2008-10-17/segment/01
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7/11/2007  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Neal Cavuto to discuss his hateful remarks at last weekend’s ‘Live Earth’ concert. Kennedy. Jr. called Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity, among others, flat-earthers and traitors for being skeptical of global warming.

The other person he included in his tirade was ABC host John Stossel. Stossel joined the show after a commercial break to go head-to-head with Kennedy Jr. All Kennedy could seem to do is say there is a consensus that there is global warming and call Mr. Stossel a liar, a typical liberal tactic.
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The Incredible Shrinking Credibility of RFK, Jr.
RealClearPolitics ^ | June 7, 2006 | Tom Bevan
Posted on 6/7/2006, 12:01:47 AM by RWR8189

If the current trend continues, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is going to end up being involved in the journalistic equivalent of the Bay of Pigs. His article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone Republicans stole the 2004 election in Ohio is coming under a massive assault - and from the unlikeliest of places. Monday in Salon, Farhad Manjoo reduced RFK, Jr.'s seemingly authoritative argument to rubble. Democratic pollster Mark Blumenthal followed suit later the same day by taking down Kennedy's claim that exit polling is an "exact science" and highlighting how he either misinterpreted or willfully distorted numerous aspects of exit poll analysis contained in the Edison-Mitofsky report.

Last Friday RFK, Jr. asserted on CNN, "There's no legitimate dispute that there was a massive, concerted, deliberate effort by high level-Republican Party officials to fix the election in Ohio. And the press has not covered this issue."
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Aug. 30, 2005 | NewsMax.com
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is blaming Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, along with President Bush, for causing Hurricane Katrina.

"As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it’s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2," Kennedy blogged Tuesday on HuffingtonPost.com.

The influential Democrat's enviro-conspiracy theory had the sinister Gov. Barbour engineering Bush's energy policy on behalf of "the president’s major donors from the fossil fuel industry." Kennedy charges that in March 2001, the former Republican National Committee chairman issued "an urgent memo to the White House" on CO2 emissions.

With that, the president dropped his pro-environment campaign promise like a hot potato.

Because of Bush and Barbour's CO2 folly, said Kennedy: "Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged."

RFK, Jr. even suggested that Katrina's last minute detour through Mississippi was a bit of Divine payback, declaring:

"Perhaps it was Barbour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast."
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RFK Jr: You know, my uncle was also shot amid a climate of right-wing hate
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/12/rfk-jr-you-know-my-uncle-was-also-shot-amid-a-climate-of-right-wing-hate/ ^
No mention Oswald was a communist.
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End of snow forever in DC
RFK jr.com ^ | September 24, 2008

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Politics & Religion / Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of the left
« on: March 28, 2024, 09:34:44 AM »
Thanks ccp.  (I didn't know that.)

Biden has some health concerns as well.
https://www.moodyneuro.org/joe-biden-is-a-survivor/

It would be nice if the person pushing Sotomayor out for health reasons was - her, and not political hacks.  Former Justice Breyer looks like the character from Monte Python, look I'm still alive...

Who will they pick for the Female Hispanic Identity Seat?  Maybe someone just finishing liberal law school to get the maximum number of years out of her. Needless to say, white, conservative, constitutionalist males need not apply.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Bridges and Infrastructure
« on: March 28, 2024, 09:23:04 AM »
"The bridge was built in 1977, during a time when ship sizes and tonnages were half or less on average than they are now. The bridge pylons and protective dolphins were likely not designed to withstand the transference of kinetic energy that it received from the fully loaded container ship striking it at 8.5mph., particularly a fully loaded ship the size of the Dali."


  - As this point, obviously not.  I always hate to comment early on disasters when we know so little.  But I do know the priority of concrete that could have reinforced this was more directed to building wind turbines than hypothetical bridge issues.

Remember Condaleeza Rice after 9/11 said no one could have imagined this.  Anyone who has driven a large boat through a small channel at low speeds could have imagined this.  A stalled boat has no steering and no brakes, and then momentum, current and wind take over.  You don't jump in and catch a 1000' ship.

They mention "single screw" a lot in the analyses.  https://www.seattleyachts.com/news/single-versus-twin-screw-propulsion

I don't know anything about 9000 container commercial ships but with large pleasure crafts, the single screw has no control in the tight channels compared to the dual.

Meanwhile, the highly paid people in Washington who might have foreseen this were in pronoun sensitivity training.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Hunter fux a Ho
« on: March 28, 2024, 08:58:50 AM »
https://nypost.com/2024/03/03/opinion/hunter-bidens-chinese-legal-client-threatens-to-sue-unless-first-son-pays-back-1-million/


"...because he claims Hunter did no legal work for him."


If everyone foreign entity who gave Hunter a million dollars and got not work in return for it sued him, he wouldn't be a very rich man...

If he refunds the income, does he get a rebate on the taxes he paid - oh wait - he didn't pay taxes.  Some kind of little known first family (Dem) exemption IIRC.

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Any irony here?  The people promoting Biden at 82 are afraid that Sonia Sotomayor is too old at 69.

https://headlineusa.com/panicked-dems-want-sotomayor-69-to-retire-before-trump-77-wins-presidency/

Besides losing the presidency as the polls stand today, Democrats see that they may never control the Senate again.

As they radicalize the polarization, half the country is extreme maga, whatever that is, Red States may not elect democratic senators anymore. Cf West Virginia, Montana, Ohio.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Gov. Ron DeSantis
« on: March 28, 2024, 08:43:12 AM »
DeSantis is rather awesome IMHO.

Note how frequently he promptly responds to problems with solutions!

Yes.  Also having a legislature that is so on-the-ball - didn't happen by accident.

Florida was a swing state when RD was elected.  We remember Bush Gore 2000.  Obama won Florida twice.  Suddenly this is a state that has its act together like no other.

Florida has 3rd largest population, a LOT of major cities, and barely over 50% white non-Hispanic population, and a lot of those are east coast liberal northerners.  Now it is Republican.
https://www.florida-demographics.com/cities_by_population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Florida

One of my proudest moments was beating their top 55 and over doubles team at Nationals.  )

We weren't wrong to hope what was happening in Florida could happen for all of America.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/opinions/gaza-israel-resigning-state-department-sheline/index.html

Here is the depth of one of those government workers making way more than productive sector workers.

What was she paid to do, make sure Hamas has everything they need?

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Science, Culture, & Humanities / Rest in Peace RIP Joe Lieberman
« on: March 27, 2024, 08:32:08 PM »
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-lieberman-former-connecticut-senator-2000-vice-presidential-nominee-dead-82.amp

The 2000 vp debate was the last (or only?) gentlemanly debate we've had in this country.

Biden Palin, Biden Ryan, Biden Trump, these were all horrible.  Joe was a gentleman, got along with both sides. Always tried to be reasonable, and that's pretty good in politics.

He has my respect. Rest in peace Joe.

To everyone else, these falls as we age, it's a thing. Let's take some precautions.

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https://www.axios.com/2024/03/27/biden-democrats-ditch-bidenomics

Sorry that isn't their term to ditch. We started it, and there never was anything positive about it.  The most neutral description you could give it is " cluelessness". But it is far worse than that.

Build back broker is the description that stuck.

But of course the term isn't neutral, it's negative, it's hurting people. What does it really mean?

No one knows how Democrats economic theories really work.  They are designed to win elections, not grow , or make people better off. The common thread is that it is government-centric.

My question is, what is the name for the opposite? What's a new name for supply-side economics that can be used in the current political environment?

I'm going to name it private-sector-nomics.

Sounds cumbersome, but Trump has a way of slowing down and enunciating, what he wants to and it's time to put the focus on the private sector, not the government. It's as simple as that.

Recall the recent post about government workers making 40% more than private sector workers, and benefits 80% more than private sector workers , or didn't I post that? It won't be easy to turn that around, but that's an example of where things have gone astray.

Exhibit B is all the rich counties around Washington DC. That ties in very closely with Trump's war on the swamp. We don't want any harm to these people or to the incomes of their families.  We just want those not needed in government to go out and get productive sector jobs with all their great talents.

Marco Rubio had a great line when he was running for president. I can't remember it verbatim but he said something like, I'm going to look at every bill comes across my desk and ask whether it helps to grow jobs and incomes or not.

Trump or someone needs to diffuse this politics of envy and now is the time. Biden is once again trying to punish the rich. Jack Kemp was questioned on that in the 1980s and said, what we need in America is more people rich.

Every tax on the rich, every tax on the corporations, every tax on the employers, every tax on the people, is a tax on the economy, a tax on everyone. We need taxes, and we need lots of them because we're falling further and further in debt. But the main problem is spending. We need our tax code to raisee the the most money and do the least damage as possible.

The central Focus must always be the health of the private sector economy.  Driving a wedge between employers and employees or the rich and the poor isn't how you do that.

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https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-nicole-shanahan-vp-pick/

She paid for his Super Bowl ad.

She is known for her expertise in economics, foreign policy money.

We'll see.  He floats a new name quite often.

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1772644255430762551

RFK jr self identifies as far-Left with VP pick. 

This is good, I think. 

Kennedy was treated badly by the Democrats?  Biden wouldn't debate?  Well now he has money and at least some ballot access.

The head fake Libertarian didn't make any sense though they still may try it for more ballot access.  There is absolutely no connection between far-Leftism and libertarianism IMHO.

My question, what primary did he win to get on ANY ballot.  Why don't all the independents have to face off like real parties do?

To consolidate the Democrat-Left vote and try to win, Biden-Harris should drop out.
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Sounds like she has very brief but lucrative marriages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Shanahan

The divorce was finalized in 2023.[2][3] In 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported that a reason for the breakup was a "brief affair" in 2021 between Shanahan and Elon Musk.[35][32] Shanahan[7] and Musk denied the report.[36] The Wall Street Journal said: "We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting."[7]

Unverified, but if true she risked her marriage with a google founder to sleep with the world's richest guy.  Kamala must be jealous.

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Science, Culture, & Humanities / 'carbon free' wind energy - continued
« on: March 26, 2024, 11:07:29 AM »
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/offshore-wind-now-costs-more-than-double-the-original-estimates-in-new-york/

It's the wind.  It's free, or something.  The know-it-all Green-Left tells us exactly what we need and why we need it and how it actually costs less and then they get the cost wrong by double.

Try sending in half your electric bill payment sometime and see how that goes for you.

Whatever costs they incur, we pay all of it.  One way or the other.

California is paying twice what other states are paying for electricity, but that tells half the story.  The other states are loaded with mandates and green energy goals too.  Recall the Texas winter storm outage a few years back.  So-called red Texas is one of the worst.

We are all paying twice too much for someone else's agenda, except for those paying twice that, and it isn't the best way to cut emissions.

Women and children and poor families are hit the hardest. Who cares, certainly the Democrats.

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Politics & Religion / Biden Administration, DOT?
« on: March 26, 2024, 10:57:39 AM »
Horrible tragedy this morning:
https://twitter.com/ThevoiceAlexa/status/1772622937570332829

I don't know how this can be political, time will tell the meaning of it, but without causation attached we have our attention diverted to diversity equity bs, we have plane parts falling from the sky and ships running into bridges. Next time we hear from our cabinet secretary Pete Buttigieg about anything other than federal transportation safety issues I hope someone will nicely tell him to sit down and shut up.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCJMF7mflGE

Joe wasn't honest, wasn't sharp and used memory issues to cover up false statements 36 years ago. 

I think this is valid material to use campaigning against him now.

Friends of mine can't vote for Trump because of "ethical" reasons. This guy is worse in every way. If you demand ethical, find someone else or sit this one out.

These are big names of Left media writing his political obituary, Sam Donaldson, David Brinkley, David Gergen, Ted Koppel, Leslie Stahl, Eleanor Clift, McLaughlin, and so on.  They weren't wrong about him.  They were wrong about us.

In his non-apology he explained, "I've done some dumb things and I'll do dumb things again".

Put that on a bumper sticker.

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Politics & Religion / Re: "bloodbath"
« on: March 26, 2024, 08:59:53 AM »
More leftist media hypocricy:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/03/18/media-hypocrites-have-often-used-the-term-bloodbath-themselves-1446088/

Unbelievable.

Without hypocrisy and projection, their airwaves would be silent.

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/25/voter_i_am_leaving_the_democratic_party_over_healthcare_everything_they_said_was_not_true.html

9.5 minute video, zero expense, powerful persuasive message. Nothing fancy. I can put this under healthcare politics but we've already covered the points there. The real question is how do we reach more people and not just preach to our choir.

This guy told his story, detailed and meaningful, heartfelt and real life.  Not propaganda or repeating talking points. And if it is, it's really brilliant.

He made a self video, put it on Twitter, and somehow got it linked with the main columnist of real clear politics this morning.

The Forum here is an amazing resource. We have millions of page views, but don't know if that's just the government surveilling us. We follow the day to day. We follow the nation and the world and history and explore the most difficult topics, but when do we try to summarize what is most important of what we have learned and share it to a wider audience?

We have national elections decided by 40,000 votes?  What if you (or I) had nine and a half minutes to talk to a million undecided voters between now and the election, what would you want to tell them?

Young people watch video-based media and this guy is clearly trying to reach young people with what he has learned, in quite a non-threatening, non-imposing sort of way.

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Politics & Religion / Free Beacon spells out RonnaGate context
« on: March 26, 2024, 07:52:57 AM »
This is the biggest thing in their small world. Bigger than 10-7. Bigger than 9/11. This is a bomb dropped right in their lap.

Remember that Ronna is not a fire-breathing right winger. She is Ronna McRomney, the peacemaker in the Republican Party.

I never knew I liked her until I saw the uproar.

Free Beacon compiles a list of things that didn't offend the same parties.
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What in the Actual F— Is Wrong With These People? (NBC News Edition)
Andrew Stiles   
March 25, 2024

We regret to inform you that America's journalists are in the midst of another temper tantrum. This one is in response to NBC News's decision to hire former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor. The network's own employees are in open revolt, incensed at the prospect of having to share screen time with a Republican who hasn't completely disavowed Donald Trump.

NBC chief political analyst Chuck Todd, a former Democratic campaign aide, slammed NBC executives for hiring someone with "credibility issues" and a history of "gaslighting." Democratic scion Mika Brzezinski urged the network to "reconsider its decision." Host Kristen Welker issued a trigger warning over the weekend before airing her interview with McDaniel on Meet the Press. Nicolle Wallace read a passage from a book about tyranny and bemoaned the degradation of "our sacred airwaves."

It wouldn't be the first time so-called mainstream journalists have revealed themselves to be hopelessly out of touch with the average Americans they claim to care about. The partisan tantrum over McDaniel's hiring suggests they are incapable of self-awareness.

Perhaps we can look forward to further discussion of this "scandal" on Inside with Jen Psaki, the MSNBC weekend show hosted by the former press secretary to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Psaki could invite MSNBC contributor Robert Gibbs, another Obama press secretary, to share his thoughts on the matter. In the following segment, MSNBC contributor Ben Rhodes, the former Obama national security adviser who bragged about manipulating "clueless" reporters, could explain why McDaniel's hiring is good for Iran.

Better yet, MSNBC host Joy Reid could deliver an unhinged monologue denouncing the network for endorsing "white supremacy." Reid was promoted in 2020 to fill the time slot vacated by Chris Matthews, the former Democratic aide who argued it was racist to refer to Barack Obama as "Obama." Matthews resigned abruptly after being accused of sexual harassment, whereas Reid did not resign after online sleuths uncovered bigoted posts on her old blog. She blamed it on hackers. (It wasn't hackers.) She got promoted anyway.

Reid could continue the conversation with MSNBC political analyst Al Sharpton, the formerly obese racial agitator who instigated deadly anti-Semitic riots in New York City during the 1990s. Sharpton continues to use his platform on MSNBC to sow racial division. For example, he argued that criticizing Harvard president Claudine Gay, who resigned in disgrace earlier this year amid a flurry of scandals involving serial plagiarism and anti-Semitism on campus, was "an attack on every black woman in this country."

This is the same network that hired Martin Bashir, who compared criticizing the IRS to using the n-word and ultimately resigned after inviting his viewers to defecate in Sarah Palin's mouth. This is the network that employed Melissa Harris-Perry, best known for making fun of Mitt Romney's adopted black grandchild, and Ed Schultz, best known for calling Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut," and Brian Williams, best known for lying about coming under fire in Iraq, and Touré Neblett, a 9/11 truther accused of sexual harassment who suggested Holocaust survivors benefited from "the power of whiteness." The less said about former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann the better.

This is the network that could have broken the story of Harvey Weinstein's long history of sexual misconduct in 2017. Alas, reporter Ronan Farrow said NBC stonewalled his investigation after Weinstein leveraged his Democratic political connections and threatened to expose Today anchor Matt Lauer's own history of sexual misconduct. Farrow gave up on NBC, published his story in the New Yorker, and won the Pulitzer Prize.

NBC is hardly unique among so-called mainstream media networks. The top journalist at ABC News is George Stephanopoulos, who served as White House communications director under Bill Clinton and was exposed by the Washington Free Beacon for failing to disclose his $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation while reporting on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2015. The network's longtime investigative journalist, Brian Ross, was eventually forced out after reporting a false story about Donald Trump in 2018. Ross won several journalism awards in 2012, the same year he baselessly accused a Tea Party member of committing a mass shooting in Colorado.

ABC News anchor Amy Robach complained in 2019 that the network refused to air her interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers in part because it involved Prince Andrew and the network was worried about losing access to the British royal family. On a related note, Epstein threw a dinner party for Prince Andrew in 2010 following Epstein's release from prison for sex crimes. Stephanopoulos attended along with other prominent journalists, including Katie Couric and Charlie Rose.

Then there's CNN, where Dan Rather used to regularly appear on a show called Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter, the media reporter who once ran an entire segment on Donald Trump's typos. Rather was a longtime CBS News anchor until his abrupt termination in 2006 after reporting a false story about then-president George W. Bush's service record in the National Guard. Jeffrey Toobin returned to CNN as a commentator earlier this year despite announcing his "last day" at the network in 2022. He is best known for masturbating on a Zoom call with colleagues, as well as for sleeping with his coworker's daughter and then pressuring her to have an abortion.

These are the people who are mad at NBC News for hiring a Republican. They still can't figure out why most Americans don't trust journalists to tell the truth. They don't deserve to be taken seriously. They are full of shit.

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"Unaware of the irony, CA insurance commission says they plan to investigate:"

  - this says it all, although unaware dramatically understates their hostility to the freedom required in the concept of forming private contracts. How can you have consenting parties, essential element of a contract, if the parties don't have the right to not consent?

And they would argue back to me, without using the f word, doug, welcome to california, what is it you don't understand about fascism?

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HkoAn9x4-JM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt

Column on video avoids the pay wall.

Government is the most dangerous form of misinformation.

Matt Taibbi discusses the Murthy case and his experience with government misinformation and government quashed dissent speech.

Unless I'm missing something, I can't believe this case isn't an easy call for every constitution based Justice.


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Politics & Religion / Chuck Todd ballistic over Ronna McDaniel
« on: March 25, 2024, 09:50:58 AM »
https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/1771915375501860980/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1771915375501860980&currentTweetUser=Mike_Hixenbaugh

What a bunch of BS.

Here is the full video:
https://youtu.be/sQRX5LqCqoc?si=PTw_CoS2tVSjMcYk

Is it an interview or a debate? Kristen is so mean and bullying. Ronna comes across as very reasonable. Keeps pushing forward when she can but keeps getting shouted down and interrupted.

Meet the press, a great American institution, has been destroyed. Completely unwatchable.

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Morning Joe, a threat to our narrative :
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2024/03/25/morning-joe-nbc-fire-ronna-mcdaniel-well-never-have-her-show

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https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F03%2F24%2Fopinion%2Fgaza-israel-war.html

Hopefully this link gets around the pay wall.

Brooks goes to great research and great effort to explain what is readily obvious to us. There is no alternative and there is no easy way to defeating Hamas.

I can't get into the thousands of comments but I imagine their readership is appalled.

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Politics & Religion / 2024, RFK Jr now hurting Biden, helpingTrump
« on: March 25, 2024, 09:05:56 AM »
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-the-polls-say-today-kennedy-hurts-biden-helps-trump.html

He can't escape that he is a Democrat dissatisfied with the incumbent, as nearly all Democrats should be.

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and are tax cuts at this point actually counter productive and will no longer pay for themselves:

https://patriotpost.us/articles/105324-tax-cuts-a-reappraisal-2024-03-20

He makes some good points but misses a few things.

He says 2017-2018 tax rate cuts were unpopular, maybe so, but the voting public trusts Trump more than Biden on the economy by a huge margin, enough to win the election perhaps, and that happens to be what he did to get his results.

Trump tax cuts did pay for themselves. Revenues never dipped.  The casual observer misses how profound that effect is. Real incomes had to rise an offsetting amount, and they did!  Under Biden, real income fell with spending based inflation.

Author misses the flip side argument of the Laffer curve.  He thinks further rate cutting is not helpful, maybe so, but the issue before us is a president and ruling party that wants further rate hikes that will (most likely) bring in no new revenue. Biden will shrink incomes by the proportion of the increases, if not worse. Obama said it to Charlie Gibson, they don't care. The rhetoric is popular with the base, but the economic results of stagnation recession are not popular with anyone. If he really wanted to raise rates, why didn't he do it while he controlled all the levers of government? Even Biden's leftist guides knew what that would do to the economy.

Author misses the point of who pays the corporate tax.  People noticed they benefitted but not necessarily how or why.  Repatriating a trillion dollars is a lot of productive investment, benefitting those who want to work.

This is when black unemployment fell to record lows and Hispanic incomes rose to record highs.  Not because they own a lot of big corporations but because we are an interconnected economy.

Without investment, the job market sucks.

Author worries about inequality and fairness but the rich already pay most of the (direct) taxes.  The other 40% pay indirectly.

Our problem today is with spending.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/03/25/america-is-going-to-be-targeted-for-a-massive-terrorist-attack-will-you-be-ready-n2636901
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Kurt says buy arms, train, carry. The attack is coming.

I hate being right but an open border means Islamic terror is walking right in, the ones who aren't already here, (along with Chinese espionage and migrants pursuing free stuff). Kurt makes same point.

Oct 7 is the model. Even if Russia was false flag, and now France is on highest alert for terror.

I don't think I will be at the venues where this is coming, but his advice is right. Active shooter doesn't like someone shooting back.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Gasparov
« on: March 25, 2024, 07:20:53 AM »
Very interesting.  I had not thought of that.

Is Putin THAT evil?    - yes

One thing is certain .  The shooters didn't risk having armed citizens shooting back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control_in_Russia#:~:text=Originally%2C%20handguns%20were%20only%20used,be%20concealed%20carry%20in%20public.

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Politics & Religion / Spending, where does the money go?
« on: March 24, 2024, 07:38:27 PM »
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/watch-illegal-alien-lists-all-things-new-york/

Free Hotel, free breakfast, free lunch, free dinner, free smartphone, free healthcare, free lawyers, I might want to try leaving and coming back in.

Can you see how this drives up the cost for everyone else?

(Recording is in Spanish.)

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Politics & Religion / Re: Abortion & Life
« on: March 24, 2024, 06:06:34 PM »
I thought our position was, it should be left to the states.

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Joe's new "budget" is 7.3T.

Roughly 130 million households in US.

Federal spending is 57,000 per household.

Are you getting your share?

Revenues are at about $5T.

Isn't it a stretch to even call this a "budget"?

How do we get through to people that government spending IS a tax. It takes resources out of the private productive economy in much the same way taxes do, and drives up the cost of everything.

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Politics & Religion / Re: VICE: dark side of the 90's : Rush Limbaugh
« on: March 24, 2024, 11:15:54 AM »
Rush Limbaugh spoke the truth better than perhaps anyone in the history of western civilization media .

Doesn't everyone have "talent on loan from God?  Yet that is their first hit on him.

I've had very little interest in radio since he died. The signal to noise ratio is way too low, and most of the hosts don't know more than we do.

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Why wouldn't we just harness the wind more widely and have zero carbon emissions?

Of course we know it takes all these trucks full of diesel (and ships) to transport each part of the turbine to it's destination.

What is never mentioned is the concrete required.

Manufacturing a cubic yard of traditional concrete emits about 400 pounds of carbon dioxide,
https://www.machinerypartner.com/blog/concrete-is-one-of-the-biggest-contributors-to-carbon-emissions-new-technologies-could-change-that

The footings are 9 feet thick and 60 feet in diameter and require 30 to 40 truckloads of concrete – about 300 cubic yards. Each footing weighs about 2 million pounds and is not removed from the soil when a turbine tower is decommissioned.
https://www.windsystemsmag.com/cutting-the-concrete/#:~:text=The%20footings%20are%209%20feet,concrete%20%E2%80%93%20about%20300%20cubic%20yards.

40 truckload, 2 million pounds of concrete per turbine delivered to rural areas, all transported by EVs is still a massive amount of CO2, times 80,000 wind turbines s far, https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-many-turbines-are-contained-us-wind-turbine-database?items_per_page=6#:~:text=As%20of%20January%202022%2C%20the,plus%20Puerto%20Rico%20and%20Guam).

All this to supply less than 4% of our total energy usage.

And for every mW of wind capacity, one mW of gas or coal generating capacity is required for those times (70% of the time?) when the wind doesn't blow.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-638/the-economics-of-wind-power/#:~:text=A%20typical%20wind%20farm%20would,times%20when%20electricity%20is%20needed.

The more we build solar and wind versus other 'carbon free' sources such as nuclear, the more we are committed permanently (?) to oil, coal and gas.  Who knew? Follow the money.

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/oil-companies-renewable-energy/

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Politics & Religion / Re: state tax incentives for Hollywood
« on: March 24, 2024, 07:55:32 AM »
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/03/24/hollywood-studios-reap-25-billion-from-states-film-tax-credits-taxpayers-see-massive-losses/

claims local economies lose money and negative ROI

governments lose 100% get back ~ 20%.

what a joke

It also happens to be the exact opposite of equal protection under the law.

And tax cuts fot the wealthy that they rail against all the rest of the time.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Heatlh Risks with Marijuana
« on: March 23, 2024, 02:03:34 PM »
"I wonder if data would be different with edibles."

I don't know the answer to this and I haven't seen that it has been studied well. But THC elevates blood pressure and heart rate, so edibles definitely have some effect without inhaling smoke. Also very easy to ingest more than the intended amount with edibles.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461323/#:~:text=THC%20causes%20an%20acute%2C%20dose,and%20heart%20rate%20(HR).&text=Due%20to%20a%20quickly%20developing,usage%20frequency%20are%20commonly%20observed.
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"Even 1 Joint per Week Enough to Boost Heart Disease Risk"

What a strange metric, even one joint a week. According to the internet, one joint can equal 35 or more hits, where two or three small puffs ought to be enough for a casual user get the effect. At least that's what I hear the other kids say.
https://leafnation.com/cannabis/how-much-thc-is-in-a-joint/#How_Many_Hits_Do_You_Get_In_a_Joint

A casual user would not sit down once a week and have 20 times the needed dosage, IMHO, at least not intentionally.

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Politics & Religion / Re: The Queering of Public Schools
« on: March 21, 2024, 08:26:20 PM »
"However, I doubt the 10%+ figure banded"

I believe a 2% estimate stood the test of time pretty well before the more recent efforts to promote it.

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Science, Culture, & Humanities / First Amendment, Murthy continued
« on: March 21, 2024, 07:54:19 AM »
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed concern that the First Amendment is “hamstringing the government in significant ways, in the most important time periods.” 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/censorship_is_a_deadend_road.html

"Reserving free expression and vigorous public debate for times of civil peace and relative social unity is like protecting a person’s Second Amendment right to own a gun only when his life is not threatened. "

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Politics & Religion / Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« on: March 21, 2024, 04:55:27 AM »

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Politics & Religion / 71% of Palestinians support the massacre
« on: March 20, 2024, 09:40:02 PM »
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/387091

71% of Palestinians support the massacre

93% do not believe terror organization committed war crimes.

I won't write on the internet where I think these people should be resettled.




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Politics & Religion / Re: Peter Schweizer on Newt Gingrich podcast
« on: March 20, 2024, 07:25:42 AM »
discussing his book 'Blood Money'

very interesting and important

China's ongoing war with the US including their cognitive warfare:

~ 35 minutes long.

https://www.gingrich360.com/2024/03/17/newts-world-episode-674-peter-schweizer-on-blood-money/

Thanks for posting this.  Excellent research and analysis. Frightening content and conclusions.

Time permitting, would like to discuss this point by point. So many important points made! Hope to come back to it soon.

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Politics & Religion / Re: Questions for Ya
« on: March 17, 2024, 09:52:07 AM »
"since China cannot fight a two front war with both Taiwan and India, India is likely to make its move for POK while China is distracted."


  - This is an important deterrent keeping or slowing China from taking Taiwan.

Maybe in a Trump second term the US will appreciate the value of having India as an ally.

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https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-nicole-shanahan-vp-pick/

She paid for his Super Bowl ad.

She is known for her expertise in economics, foreign policy money.

We'll see.  He floats a new name quite often.

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Andy McCarthy:  Everybody (who votes) should read the Hur-Biden Interview.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/03/every-american-should-read-bidens-interview-by-special-counsel-hur/

Unbelievable.
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 “Hur asks Biden in what workspaces he kept documents at the vice president’s residence (the Naval Observatory); Biden’s response runs seven pages — although it was not a sensible response to the very simple question asked”:

On page 55 of the transcript, Hur asks Biden in what workspaces he kept documents at the vice president’s residence (the Naval Observatory); Biden’s response runs seven pages — although it was not a sensible response to the very simple question asked.

The president began by recounting that “I was the guy who wrote the Violence Against Women Act”; that agriculture is “a $4 billion industry in Delaware and the Delmarva peninsula”; that in a law-school torts class he was applauded for speaking ten minutes about a case he had not read; that “to make a long story short” he got a job out of law school at a firm in Delaware; and that “to make a long story not quite so long” he participated in a case while he was waiting for his bar results involving “this poor kid [who was] down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside” but “was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he —a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old.” The senior partner told Biden to write a memo supporting a motion to dismiss the case, “and son of a bitch, it prevailed,” whereupon Biden thought “son of a bitch I’m in the wrong business, I’m not made for this.”

Thereupon, the senior partner invited him to go to the Wilmington Club, where “no blacks, Catholics are allowed — have been allowed to be members. The DuPont family name.” (Biden elsewhere in the seven pages repeatedly refers to the DuPont family, whom he describes as “Rockefeller Republicans” highly influential in Delaware.) Biden recalled being so taken aback by the Wilmington Club invitation that, in “the only time I ever lied that I can remember looking somebody in the eye,” he made up a story that his father was coming to visit that day. Then he immediately walked through “the basement on a public building and walked in with a guy named Frank and I said I want a job as a public defender.” This began “what got me — I had been involved in the civil-rights movement. That got me deeply involved in trying to reform the Democratic Party, which was a southern Democratic Party. We were a slave state by law.”

“And the whole point of telling you all this,” he continued, “is that I had a lot of material that I kept notes on” about the Democratic Party. And at that point, when he was 26 or 27 years old, Biden elaborated, “I went to work part time for a criminal-defense firm mainly, a real estate — there were five people. And so I was no longer a public defender. . . .” Then “one thing led to another” and Biden joined a group seeking to reform the Democratic Party. Even though he was young, they wanted him to run for the state senate. But he wanted to start his own law firm instead. “So to make a long story short,” he ended up running for county council, but “wanted to be sure that I was going to lose,” so he ran in a district that no Democrat had ever won. “And I won it. And next thing you know, I’m in a tough position. My generic point was that there was a lot of material that I had amassed that I wanted to save. I probably still have it somewhere. And so that stuff would travel wherever the hell I was.”


McCarthy concludes with these observations:

Events in his telling are conflated and collapse into nonsense; he lapses into incoherence and often cannot recall and relate basic information.

Biden is asking Americans to elect him president for another four-year term, at the end of which he will be 86 and four years older than the senescent man who answered special counsel Hur’s questions in October.

So please, read the transcript, but not for what it says about Biden’s carelessness regarding the nation’s secrets. Instead, read it and ask yourself whether he should be president right now, let alone for the next five years.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/biden-unplugged.php

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I love the India region updates from ya.  It is SO underreported in American media.

Weird (to us) in the era or Biden, Schumer, Pelosi et al to see a leader want to build up the strength of his own country, economy and military readiness. 

Meanwhile we apologize for and dismantle our own.

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Politics & Religion / 2024, No State of the Union bump for Biden
« on: March 17, 2024, 08:04:28 AM »
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4528659-biden-sees-no-polling-bump-after-state-of-the-union/

They want to tell us his only problem is he's old, but he is measurably on the wrong side of polling on almost every major issue.

We expected a lethargic, slurring Biden at the SOTU and we got an 'amped up' President, slurring with high energy and anger.  Doesn't that solve the age issue?  Guess not. No bump.

Why not?  High energy Joe doesn't make inflation go away or world peace come back.  It doesn't close the border or remove the crime from the streets.  His problem never was that he is old; his problem is that he is wrong.

Plus he is unlistenable, negating the whole advantage of a 'bully pulpit'.  If anything, he IS the bully, siccing lawfare on his opponents and labeling everyone who disagrees with him an extremist.  Using agencies and surrogates to destroy them while he hides behind the curtain.

Funny it was Democrats who sell youthfulness and vigor as important qualities for leading the country when they think it favors them, cf. Kennedy, Clinton.  An old guy was promised to be a one term bridge to the next leadership, until he wasn't.

Joe's angry tone is more suited for a challenger (as he was last time) than an incumbent.  But old dog can't learn new trick.  Why is he mad at us?  He's the one f*cking everything up.

Out of this, he handed Trump his best line yet:  (paraphrase?)

'An angry Joe Biden shouldn't be shouting at America.  An angry America should be shouting at Joe Biden'.

As Joe tries to 'amp up' his campaign more and more, the line becomes more  lasting and persuasive.

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