[rjnwmill]

[quote quote=5798]You guys have really screwed up your social credit system profiles. You may find yourself blacklisted from Starbucks soon.[/quote]

My Experian Social Credit Score was down to 160 or so after my vote in November 2016. Starbucks went so far as to black list me at Pete’s and Coffee Bean.

Now I have nothing to fear but fear itself…and humor that falls flat.

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[rjnwmill]

[quote quote=5797]Are there benefits (maybe a cabinet level position) for old guys with toenail fungus on his right foot? Asking for a friend.[/quote]

You made my day!

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[rjnwmill]

So much for Joe’s “solution” to our debt problem.  

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If there is something here, it will prove to be the breadth and scale of the effort.  Stay tuned.

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[quote quote=5770]I was mostly just curious about expectations rather than a long thread full of political diatribes blaming the Democrats.[/quote]

Your usual narrative in an effort to position yourself as the big picture guy, the smartest guy in the room. You don’t have to convince us.

There is a fundamental discontinuity in our economic policy and military/defense policy that is now complicated by climate change policy. The discontinuity isn’t partisan. It’s a fundamental incoherence over the last thirty years, made worse by our broken politics. Our attention span is what, 12 months now?  Hell, it didn’t take eight months till the narratives focused on the midterms?  Biden can’t be positioned to “win” no matter what he does. So we end up with a wag the dog foreign policy competing with a your “weak” narrative competing for the news cycle. Both are entirely inappropriate.

So why would Putin look for the knockout when we’re totally ineffective. Xi is right. Our political institutions are not up to the challenge. Musk is right. Fiscal irresponsibility, the holy grail of both parties  is unilateral surrender.

And oil is now $94/ bbl?

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[rjnwmill]

How do you think “idiots” obtain strategic objectives?  Predicting a scorecard?

This seems like a long term game with long term initiatives by our competitors while we play domestic politics. So what does a “win” for Russia look like?  I saw this conclusion in an article and it made sense to me:

”The one thing I’m fairly sure of, however, is that if Putin concludes some large military exercises inside of his own borders this week and then just sends his troops back to their permanent home bases, Joe Biden and our intelligence agencies are going to come off looking like a bunch of paranoid idiots.”

What does this do to our “leadership” after Afghanistan?  And Putin now has video/audio from a one hour exchange with Biden. That’s got to be a hoot. More useful than the supposed Trump piss sessions or the Ukraine phone call that drove impeachment?  Our fool actually took himself seriously. Can you believe that?

Just as Reagan waited 35 years to exploit the inevitable consequences of USSR economic weakness, Putin has time to chip away at the foundation. He doesn’t need final victory. Instead an incremental step. Feed the DC idiots. Watch Joe crow about the power of his diplomacy…until the release of the tape.

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[rjnwmill]

Nah, the Chinese won’t lock up an American. But they’ll be up shit creek when they come back to this country. Pelosi, Schiff, Raskin & Swalwell will put ‘em in solitary for a year waiting trial. Hell, may even start another select committee.

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[rjnwmill]

[quote quote=5745]Blame Trump. Worked for Biden. . . .[/quote]

It “worked” if you conclude that showing yourself to be an incompetent and cognitively impaired old fool fits within the definition.

I’d suggest it’s so bad that it will ultimately disgrace Obama’s “lead from behind” bull shit that selected him for the front man and then staffed the administration.

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I don’t much care who he picks. All he’s getting is 35-40 years at best.

After Scalia, I’m much more concerned about Thomas’s health. After listening to the mandate arguments, substituting another “wise Latina” for Thomas would be a shame.

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Not unlike the tale that he was unseen as he was vacationing as the CCP virus ravaged his state. He was vacationing with his wife at an infusion center as she received chemotherapy. I don’t know if they booked through AMEX.

Our politics are broken. Those peddling this shit are all to quick to refer to a discussion of voting anomalies as “the Big Lie”.  Right.

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Someone will have to explain to me how teaching this narrative won’t isolate the 85% of the Hayward students who are non white from our larger melting point society and how isolation is a positive for these kids.

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You did miss one; his personnel decisions. They’re diverse as could be…and they’re all failing for diverse reasons.

-Psaki, a press officer exists to effectively persuade. She must speak with folks on both sides of an issue. Psaki can only communicate with one side of an issue.

-Grandholm, a domain “expert” that is ignorant in her domain.

-Buttigeg, a guy who is predisposed towards his own needs. Two months off for paternity leave as our transportation system is compromised. And cant focus on his portfolio, student loan forgiveness?  Really?

-Austin, reading and recommending white privilege literature as we try to exit Afghanistan.

Some management team, eh?

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Every story about capacity issues addressing our healthcare delivery infrastructure should include the number of local healthcare professionals that have been terminated due to CCP vaccine mandates. See pressing capacity problems associated with the administration of infused monoclonal antibodies.

So Joe takes a bow deploying medical pros from the national guard.

And now our Cornholio threatens with a winter of death from a mild variant…a that could otherwise further herd immunity?  Think that will lower emergency room visits?

Reminds one of Klain’s assessment of Cornholio’s last engagement with public health delivery, “we fucked everything up. We just got lucky the bug wasn’t deadly”.

He is what he is…and water finds it’s on level…with the economy…with foreign policy…with immigration…with public policy…

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Pushing a plan to spend ten years of tax receipts in 18-24 months…what in the world is Cornholio thinking about? Even our own “Baghdad Bob” can’t spin this one. She can’t blame the pandemic on this one.

Who thinks Manchin will cave?

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Today was amusing. Harris offers thoughts on the nine wise souls, the decision in the Texas case & abortion generally. Feeding “her” base?  (Is that an oxymoron?)

Why would I care?  Shouldn’t we focus on her performance of her assigned duties?  How’s that border thing going Kamala?

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