I gave up some "fights," such as getting D politicians and other reporters to stop treating Fox as a legitimate new organization.
Dem leaders - electeds and others - just won't engage in these kinds of arguments, so it's impossible for some guy with a website to contribute anything to it.
It is impossible to imagine the liberal mirror version of this - in part because there is no liberal media mirror version of Fox - but something like this would lead to a hissy fit led by conservatives, elected Rs, and then mainstream reporters until people were fired.
Thursday, February 08, 2024
Sounds Promising
Good news!
Scientists and engineers near the English city of Oxford have set a nuclear fusion energy record, they announced Thursday, bringing the clean, futuristic power source another step closer to reality.Ah, well, nevertheless.
Using the Joint European Torus (JET) — a huge, donut-shaped machine known as a tokamak — the scientists sustained a record 69 megajoules of fusion energy for five seconds, using just 0.2 milligrams of fuel.
And myriad challenges remain. Khan points out that the team used more energy to carry out the experiment than it generated, for example.(maybe I should't be so cynical)
That Asshole Wallet Inspector Stole My Wallet Again - The Bastard!
A frustrating thing is that it is generally The Left (however defined, whatever the flaws otherwise) that is clear-eyed about what Republicans are and how they operate.
I didn't like Bill Clinton's "triangulation" but "clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right" was more sensible than trying to embrace bipartisanship in the age of Trump.GRAHAM: says he is a no on starting on the Ukraine/Israel pkg until he gets a guarantee of votes on border amendments.
— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) February 7, 2024
Thus, confirming the impossible paradox of now.
GOP is blocking Border + Ukraine together - and now poised (next vote) to block them apart.
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Those Are People
I'm not even a particularly "emo" kinda person, but the willingness to chuck out any concern for the effects of policy on the most precarious people, based on likely incorrect (or even correct!) notions of political expediency, upsets me quite a bit!
We all have our own lines, or at least I hope we do!
One of my firm belief is that our politics would be greatly improved by shutting off cable news in Congressional offices. This was obvious to me 20 years or so ago when I first paid a visit to some of those offices. Things like "the border crisis" are a crisis because they are on teevee, not because of anything real, and while I don't think my personal politics are universally popular, I don't think allowing yourself to be led around by the worst people in the world (conservatives, shitty political journalists, and the democratic mercenary consultant class) is the smart play, either.
We all have our own lines, or at least I hope we do!
One of my firm belief is that our politics would be greatly improved by shutting off cable news in Congressional offices. This was obvious to me 20 years or so ago when I first paid a visit to some of those offices. Things like "the border crisis" are a crisis because they are on teevee, not because of anything real, and while I don't think my personal politics are universally popular, I don't think allowing yourself to be led around by the worst people in the world (conservatives, shitty political journalists, and the democratic mercenary consultant class) is the smart play, either.
Sure
Met with @IsraeliPM Netanyahu in Jerusalem to discuss the latest efforts to secure release of all hostages and ensure events of October 7 are never repeated. I stressed the importance of protecting civilians in Gaza and ensuring more humanitarian aid gets to people in need. pic.twitter.com/EQsKUijoL0
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) February 7, 2024
Easy Stuff
As I said a few weeks ago when San Diego has some flooding, Philly has problems with clogged gutters simply because they won't do comprehensive street cleaning. Enraging me doubly, the main reason they won't is because people don't want to move their cars. Basements and more flood because of the parking people.
Some things are complicated and expensive and some things aren't.
Some things are complicated and expensive and some things aren't.
“The reality [is] that you simply can’t rehabilitate everything under the ground … for climate change, you simply can’t,” Chester said. “So a reasonable strategy seems to be to attenuate, reduce the amount of water that’s putting pressure on those systems.” In other words, if the pipes can’t all be swapped out for jumbo-size warming-proof behemoths, try to limit the amount of water that gets to the pipes. One way to do that is with green infrastructure.Replacing all the sewer pipes is expensive, but trying to divert some of the water in other ways isn't. There are limits to the effectiveness of this - or anything - but with flooding, things are fine right up until they aren't, and moving that line out just a bit can prevent a lot of damage.
“There is growing interest in the U.S. and around the world in nature-based solutions, including green stormwater infrastructure,” McPhillips said. She has documented the increasing use of things like green rooftops, curbside “swales” where plants and soil can collect water, and larger retention areas—all designed essentially to soak up some of the intense rainstorm’s output and then release it slowly, such that the existing drainage systems don’t get overwhelmed.
L After L
At least we can laugh at this.
House Republicans failed to pass articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, scuttling an effort that was widely seen as an opportunity to deliver on a key promise to GOP base voters.
The vote was stuck in a tie for several minutes as leaders scrambled, but in the end, four Republicans voted against the measure and the final vote was 214 to 216.
Pivot
At some point Dems switched from arguing this was a necessary deal to get Ukraine money to arguing that the immigration provisions were good in and of themselves, and began championing them.
Again, there is a big difference between "we tried to get a deal on things by giving them stuff they wanted in exchange for stuff we wanted" and "we gave the Republicans their dream wish list which was good, akshually."
Dems are out there arguing that this bill would have "fixed the border." It's madness.
Chris Murphy:
What is the crisis? What is the chaos? What is it fixing? Either in reality or in the political problem of Fox News screeching about it every day?
Again, there is a big difference between "we tried to get a deal on things by giving them stuff they wanted in exchange for stuff we wanted" and "we gave the Republicans their dream wish list which was good, akshually."
Dems are out there arguing that this bill would have "fixed the border." It's madness.
Chris Murphy:
Congress now has a decision: do you want immigration to just be a perpetual political cudgel, or do you want to solve the problem?It's madness to thinks this would "fix the border," and it's certainly madness to think this "fix" would stop conservatives from screeching about it.
This week, every Senator gets to vote. Support a compromise, bipartisan bill to fix the border
What will Republicans do? Fix the border or keep the chaos to please Trump?
We have a chance to pass a bipartisan bill to fund Ukraine the fix the border and we should do our job.
Nobody had more optimism than me that Republicans would do the right thing and vote for our bipartisan bill to fix the border and fund Ukraine.
Republicans pretended they wanted to fix the border. They don't.
Republicans said they wanted a bipartisan border fix and we got one
Trump told them to oppose the bipartisan border bill to keep the chaos at the border [...]
What is the crisis? What is the chaos? What is it fixing? Either in reality or in the political problem of Fox News screeching about it every day?
Fixing The "Border Crisis"
I'm glad we've now succeeded in pivoting the election narrative to Trump's issue so that he can now make the case that only he can work with Congress to do what is "necessary."
Please clap.
Gonna get normie libs holding "fix the border" rallies.
Please clap.
Yah, Senator, you've given all 13 of these people a lot to think about.
"Our message should be that the he only way to solve this pressing problem, the most important problem, is to elect Donald Trump. I am a smart political consultant, here is where to send my check."If you are a moderate Republican who cares about foreign policy or border issues, you are moderate, but you are likely no longer a Republican. You might not know it, but these people have abandoned you.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) February 6, 2024
Gonna get normie libs holding "fix the border" rallies.
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
It's February 6, Bitches
How's this working out (from early December).
I'm tired of being asked WHAT CAN BIDEN DOOOOOO because it's a bad faith question every time. I'm not obligated to pretend that people are operating in good faith when they aren't.
If people want to to proudly pull their pants down and display their asses and demand applause they can do that, but I'm not obligated to applaud.
Officials from the Biden administration have marked the start of 2024 as the target date for ending Israel’s massive military campaign against terror group Hamas.Of course it was clear then that Gaza would be flattened and the starvation/medical system failure stage would be with us.
I'm tired of being asked WHAT CAN BIDEN DOOOOOO because it's a bad faith question every time. I'm not obligated to pretend that people are operating in good faith when they aren't.
If people want to to proudly pull their pants down and display their asses and demand applause they can do that, but I'm not obligated to applaud.
Toby Keith Is Dead
Remember him for when he was most famous, riding the post 9-11 bloodlust, racism, and Dixie Chicks hate.
(he would project this at concerts)
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