tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post6394979871798391664..comments2024-03-28T09:30:58.096-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: Science updates: A focus on biotech and biology wonders!David Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-49405637231169094562022-01-22T14:51:48.325-08:002022-01-22T14:51:48.325-08:00onward
onwardonward<br /><br />onwardDavid Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-7504564101658544292022-01-22T11:51:34.972-08:002022-01-22T11:51:34.972-08:00"Especially with countries they've lost W..."Especially with countries they've lost World Wars to" It's not their losing that means they must take care with Russia & Ukraine. It's what preceded those losses.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-2630048872342947892022-01-22T10:16:49.776-08:002022-01-22T10:16:49.776-08:00Dr Brin:
Germany cannot play bad cop with countri...Dr Brin:<br /><i><br />Germany cannot play bad cop with countries where they have such history.<br /></i><br /><br />Especially with countries they've lost World Wars to.<br /><br />(Sorry, just sayin')Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-70332530387519248852022-01-22T10:15:24.401-08:002022-01-22T10:15:24.401-08:00matthew:
We would have gotten infrastructure anyw...matthew:<br /><i><br />We would have gotten infrastructure anyway, probably in the 1T range instead of 2T. <br /></i><br /><br />No, we wouldn't. If that were the case, we would have gotten infrastructure during the Trump years, either when the Republicans controlled congress or when the Democrats did. If the Republican <b>minority</b> successfully obstructs anything that would be a "win" for Biden, what makes you think a Republican <b>majority</b> would even bring it to the floor, let alone pass it.<br /><br /><i><br />The narrative in the press would be about GOP intransigence instead of the lack of Dem leadership. <br /></i><br /><br />Again, if that wasn't the narrative in 2009, what makes you think it would be different now?<br /><br /><i><br />But the narrative would not be "the Democrats control both sides of Congress, why aren't they doing anything," it would be "the GOP refuses to work with a popular president." One of these things is a win for the GOP, one of them is not.<br /></i><br /><br />I agree with your statements of fact, but disagree with your conclusions.<br /><br />Yes, the narrative today is "the Democrats control both sides of Congress, why aren't they doing anything," but that's the fault of the media and of the Democrats themselves for failing to mention the power that the Senate minority has to obstruct. It was even worse in 2009 when the <b>only</b> thing that Republicans had was 41 Senators, and yet they were able to parlay obstruction into a massive electoral win in 2010 and again in 2014. Because if your only goal is obstruction, then a single lever of government is enough to get your way all the time.<br /><br />And what makes you think the media would portray President Biden as "a popular president" (and the Republicans as bad for obstructing him) than they do now? Bill frickin' Maher, who has no love for Trump, just quoted that weird Quinnipiac poll that the rest of the media keep touting which shows Biden at 33% approval. Every night I am inundated with stories about inflation, empty store shelves, and why Biden hasn't beaten COVID yet. You think they would be treating him better if Republicans had the Senate?Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-64539323685710949112022-01-22T10:04:17.603-08:002022-01-22T10:04:17.603-08:00The clown-car fascists, pillowguys, rabid godheads...The clown-car fascists, pillowguys, rabid godheads, indicted fugitives, and dead enders must rely on dodgy hokery-pokery and desperate Hail Marys to seize history*. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Macbeth, and much of Shakespeare, in one line: you can't murder your way to paradise. I long ago threw my lot in with the rational west, citizen science, and the enlightenment, together with many millions of others. Humanity, industry, forbearance, and posterity are our values.<br /><br />* And are thus doomed to repeat it. Santayana, Boas, Kroeber, et al. All history is psychohistory (especially Sinema :)scidatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07152319593457629592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-80048781441574399722022-01-22T09:36:23.631-08:002022-01-22T09:36:23.631-08:00Oh such nonsense! Bernie & Kiz as committee ch...Oh such nonsense! Bernie & Kiz as committee chairs MATTERS. And GOPpers made it a tradition to mock "infrastructure Week" every year for the last ten, faking interest then dropping it. They would never have given Biden a victory. The rest of your 'would have' is dazzling! Utterly mind-blowing!<br /><br />--<br />re: Germany and Ukraine, Have you ever heard of good-cop/bad-cop? Germany cannot play bad cop with countries where they have such history.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-69534764440995601102022-01-22T08:39:09.941-08:002022-01-22T08:39:09.941-08:00Larry,
What I am saying is hearings about Hunter ...Larry, <br />What I am saying is hearings about Hunter Biden and Dr. Fauci and fewer judges are not "vastly" worse than our current outcome. <br />We would have gotten infrastructure anyway, probably in the 1T range instead of 2T. The narrative in the press would be about GOP intransigence instead of the lack of Dem leadership. Senate approval for Biden's cabinet, including the AG, would not have been given. <br />The House would still be running the Jan 6th investigation. The DoJ would still be charging the insurrectionists, even without Garland in charge because the non-political appointees would go after the low-level coup plotters regardless of who was in charge. <br /><br />But the narrative would not be "the Democrats control both sides of Congress, why aren't they doing anything," it would be "the GOP refuses to work with a popular president." One of these things is a win for the GOP, one of them is not. <br /><br />If the goal is to protect our democracy, then having a quisling like Manchin sabotage the *entire* agenda of the Democratic party is worse than having a visible foe like the GOP. <br /><br />Manchin has made the POTUS look like a fool for trusting Manchin at his word. The GOP does not have the same power as Manchin's lies.<br /><br />Focus on the outcome of saving democracy in the US, and Manchin's betrayal has bigger consequences than having a GOP Senator from red West Virginia. matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17757867868731829206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-56254617592163438932022-01-22T08:27:49.421-08:002022-01-22T08:27:49.421-08:00Also note that the American "left" is to...<i>Also note that the American "left" is to the right of what's generally considered left-wing in most of the world. Enough so that your "socialist" Bernie Sanders would be on the right of the average left-wing party, yet is apparently considered to be radically left in American politics.</i><br /><br />I sometimes think that over here, the parties moved with the center, while in the US, it might have been vice versa.<br /><br />Currently, the "burgeois" parties have more seats in the 20th Bundestag than the "left" ones; the FDP has switched camps, though.<br /><br />Last week, a member of the AfD faction left the party because it had became to radical for him, taking his seat to the ... Deutsche Zentrumspartei. The Party that lifted Adolf Hitler into power. Left me with a shudder. Did not know they still exist.<br />Der Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977602334642769985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-9243121363407901342022-01-22T08:17:56.281-08:002022-01-22T08:17:56.281-08:00Apropos nothing much,
I'm watching a Netflix ...Apropos nothing much,<br /><br />I'm watching a Netflix series about WWII which describes Hitler's deteriorating mental state as the war goes badly by 1943. According to this documentary, Hitler was under the care of a physician who prescribed increasingly bizarre medications such as (not making this up) bull semen to increase his virility. So the whole Trump thing about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin is not without precedent.<br /><br />More to the point, though. Back in grade school, when I was first exposed to filmed records of Nazi atrocities in the concentration camps and the like, I always wondered just what the Nazis were thinking when they filmed themselves committing such atrocities. Only now do I put it together that those films were the YouTube/Twitter/Parler of their day--their primitive version of modern day criminals posting their own bank robberies, carjackings, and invasions of the US Capitol to social media for all to see. Once again, <i>Plus ca change, plus la meme chose.</i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-273397679265493682022-01-22T07:57:03.767-08:002022-01-22T07:57:03.767-08:00Der Oger, do you have any insight on why Germany i...<i> Der Oger, do you have any insight on why Germany is halting weapons transfers to Ukraine? Is natural gas enough explanation? </i><br /><br />Maybe. Cutting down the pipelines will hurt us very badly economically. But Chancellor Scholz has already mentioned that he might do it. Maybe he just tries to prepare the public, or buys time.<br /><br />Also, it is quite illegal to export weapons to instable non-Nato countries. Heckler & Koch found that out when they exported small arms to Mexico that originally were intended for the police force but ended up in the hands of the cartels. (By contrast, as long as the country is stable, the law does not differentiate between democracies and autocracies, so we are apparently totally ok with selling arms to countries like Egypt. That might change, though.)<br /><br />Maybe it is the fact that we have 5 million people of Russian descent in the country.<br /><br />Maybe it is our special history with Russia, and the fact that we are in no shape to wage a continental war with it.Maybe it is just not wise to poke the bear.<br /><br />Maybe, if the continental war becomes inevitable, it might be wiser to keep the weapons for yourself, stockpiling them instead of selling them abroad.<br /><br />Maybe it is even blackmail (though I think it might be very unwise to try to intimidate the "Scholz-O-Mat").<br /><br />But maybe it is something entirely else. Maybe it is Blinken's masterpiece.<br /><br />See, part of Lawrows job is to provide a pretext for invasion. To this end, he tried to narrow the playing field to a negotiation with the US he intended to fail. But Blinken and the others might play a massive "Good cop/Bad Cop" game.<br /><br />The UK and Tschechia deliver weapons. The Canadians send in and train commandos. The US do what they do. Germany keeps an outstretched hand. Multilateral action that keeps Lawrow spinning. <br /><br />Something about the press conference of our Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Lawrow was odd. Baerbock was very focussed, cold and determined. A very different appearance when compared to the electoral campaign. Lawrow, on the other hand, looked somewhat befuddled, as if he had expected something different. In contrast to the press conference he had after he met Blinken. It was almost funny to watch him reinvent reality and spinning lies and half-truths into a tapestry of illusions.<br /><br />Maybe Lawrow has realized he has "lost" the diplomatic game. He cannot declare "Negotiations with the US have failed, we see no other way than to invade" because he now has to talk with all those who have a stake in the game.Der Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977602334642769985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-33740134123192935642022-01-21T22:29:26.881-08:002022-01-21T22:29:26.881-08:00Der Oger,
There won't be any nukes flying fro...Der Oger,<br /><br />There won't be any nukes flying from over here. Only the truly, utterly stupid would take us on that way nowadays.<br /><br />You'll see lots of scary rhetoric and maybe more shooting. Maybe the war already happening in Ukraine will escalate. We shall see.<br /><br />What you'll see from over here (assuming we maintain our sanity at the DoD) are moves that cost Russia more money than they can possibly afford. That will pressure them to extract cash out of markets near them... which means you. <br /><br />If you can avoid funding them, this all goes the same damn way it did with the Soviets. Putin eventually does something smart (and pulls back declaring a fake victory), something dumb (and gets displaced by people who don't want to die stupidly), or kicks that can down the road and spends his nation into bankruptcy again. Unfortunately, before that happens, a lot of Russians will suffer the usual secret police ghastliness.<br /><br />No nukes, though.<br />That would be stupid.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-62869557952241211472022-01-21T22:22:05.841-08:002022-01-21T22:22:05.841-08:00Matthew,
Yes. Dem control of the Senate is worth ...Matthew,<br /><br />Yes. Dem control of the Senate is worth the loss of the entire Democratic agenda... which didn't happen. Some of it, but not all of it.<br /><br />Y'all need a few more Senators to get what you want, but at least the other guys didn't get what they want.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-53729407487943224742022-01-21T18:04:07.230-08:002022-01-21T18:04:07.230-08:00matthew:
Dr. Brin, show your work regarding Manch...matthew:<br /><i><br />Dr. Brin, show your work regarding Manchin.<br />Are you claiming that Senate committee chairs and a few judges outweigh *all* Biden's legislative agenda during his honeymoon first year?<br /></i><br /><br />No, I'm pretty sure he's saying that without Manchin filling what would otherwise be a Republican seat, Mitch McConnell would control the Senate, and that none of the Dem's legislative agenda would have passed anyway. Instead, they'd be holding hearings investigating Hunter Biden and Dr Fauci.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-89229417155392600592022-01-21T15:49:56.810-08:002022-01-21T15:49:56.810-08:00Mike Flynn caught gathering blackmail material aga...Mike Flynn caught gathering blackmail material against fellow Republicans in order to get them to back fraudulent voter "audits."<br />https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/21/michael-flynn-allies-allegedly-targeted-republicans-back-election-audits<br /><br />Dr. Brin, show your work regarding Manchin. <br />Are you claiming that Senate committee chairs and a few judges outweigh *all* Biden's legislative agenda during his honeymoon first year? <br />Manchin dictated the whole pace and tone of the Senate this year. I see an argument for it being a wash either way. <br />I strongly disagree that committee chairs and a year worth of judges are "vastly" (your word) more important than the entire Dem legislative agenda. Manchin laid waste to any idea of centrist negotiation for the rest of Biden's term, and if the Dems lose either house in 2022, Manchin will be directly to blame. matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17757867868731829206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-68999031720469693272022-01-21T14:49:51.647-08:002022-01-21T14:49:51.647-08:00I’ll join that party, David.I’ll join that party, David.GMT -5 8032https://www.blogger.com/profile/04677459423995332529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-84010793337873981792022-01-21T14:33:30.119-08:002022-01-21T14:33:30.119-08:00Matthew, again BAH! The good Manchin has done VAST...Matthew, again BAH! The good Manchin has done VASTLY outweighs the bad! Do I wish he weren't obstructing many good things? Hell yeah! But I will not cotton to screaming at a democratic senator from West f---- Virginia. My dream? That he leave the DP to start a new party with TWENTY GOP Senators who then negotiate like actual citizens.<br /><br />The arms to Ukraine that matter are being flown into Poland by the US. Let the Germans step in as peacemakers after dust has settled.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-39029916486043158562022-01-21T14:05:35.532-08:002022-01-21T14:05:35.532-08:00Larry, a quisling Manchin succeeded in tying up th...Larry, a quisling Manchin succeeded in tying up the Dem Senate in negotiations for nearly a year, reneging on his word multiple times. The time and political capital wasted are a huge loss for the Dems. A GOP Manchin would be just another back-bencher, and would be considered a RINO by many in the party. He would be not nearly as effective for Exxon, committee chairs notwithstanding. <br /><br />Der Oger, do you have any insight on why Germany is halting weapons transfers to Ukraine? Is natural gas enough explanation? <br />https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/germany-continues-blocking-arms-exports-to-ukraine-due-to-new-foreign-peace-policy/matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17757867868731829206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-91601334507361562752022-01-21T12:55:48.033-08:002022-01-21T12:55:48.033-08:00Re: sold large swathes of Siberia.
Not too much s...Re: sold large swathes of Siberia.<br /><br />Not too much speculation at all. In 1867, Canada was confederated and Russia sold all of Alaska and a chunk of British Columbia to the US for pocket change.<br /><br /><br />BTW Denzel is wonderful as Macbeth.scidatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07152319593457629592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-27901746957745421482022-01-21T12:20:21.672-08:002022-01-21T12:20:21.672-08:00Re: Ukraine. The wife of the seller is from Ukrain...Re: Ukraine. The wife of the seller is from Ukraine; she married my former co-worker Dave back in 2003 and she came to the US with her young son (who is now a Julliard graduate and a magnificent concert pianist).<br /><br />Russia may be a corrupt oligarchy run by mobsters, but it still has valid interests. I will look up Spinrad’s solution. There are ways to negotiate with corrupt, unscrupulous opposing parties. It’s not easy, but it is possible.GMT -5 8032https://www.blogger.com/profile/04677459423995332529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-10230309016976092632022-01-21T12:08:30.415-08:002022-01-21T12:08:30.415-08:00GMT congratulations on the home purchase!
re Ukra...GMT congratulations on the home purchase!<br /><br />re Ukraine, Norman Spinrad concocted a win-win deal he has promulgated that would leave Ukraine in the lurch.<br /><br />Here's how I responded:<br /><br />“The Spinrad Solution to the Ukraine Crisis,” offering what would seem a formula for a ‘win-win’ outcome for all sides. Alas, almost nothing that you assert or propose in that offering is true or plausible<br /><br />1. I notice that you, like Putin, make absolutely no mention of the right of the Ukrainian people to choose or vote on their own future. You act like these are pieces on a bargaining table or a game of Risk. This is in contrast to your laudable mention of positive sum games and win-win options... a concept that doesn't fit the 'chess-player metaphor. <br /><br />In any event, the concept of democratic self-determination must be our central emphasis, just as it is the one concept that is most poisonous to Putinism, which now raises giant statues to glorious past Czars. In order to better grasp his goal, do read Vladimir Sorokin’s chilling novel THE DAY OF THE OPRICHNIK.<br /><br /> Did you read Putin's recent essay on shared Slavic history that justified forcing Kyiv back into the Motherland, where she belongs? <br /><br />2. You don't mention Russia's demographic and economic death spiral. Or that in a year US methane shipments to Europe will rise hugely. The next time that oil and gas prices slump, there could be great pain over in Moscow’s oligarchy.<br /><br />3. Nor do you mention the desperate straits Putin faces, now that he no longer has a Quisling in the US White House to prevent our agencies from fighting back. In fact, I would lay betting odds that right now there are acts of reciprocal sabotage taking place in shadows, perhaps even resembling what the great Sci Fi author Frederik Pohl depicted so chillingly in his amazing novel THE COOL WAR. And earlier Brunner, in STAND ON ZANZIBAR.<br /><br />Combine desperation with Putin's known propensity to be a gambler, and an impulsive one, at that, and yes, I perceive real danger of intemperate action.<br /><br />4. But I doubt many Russian generals are eager for an invasion, in an era when the technological advantages go to a prepared defense. And each day that Ukrainians prepare in Polish training camps with flown-in NATO weapons makes that invader disadvantage worse.<br /><br />(Russian military doctrine for a century has called for devastating artillery preparation. This may not play well in plain sight of world media.)<br /><br />5. Yes, we should listen to Putin's complaints about NATO! From his perspective, Obama and HClinton 'stole' Ukraine, breaking our promise to leave his buffer alone. To him, the fact that this arose from clear preferences of the Ukrainian people is not a legitimate factor. We broke our word and he took revenge with Trump. (Look at the infamous photo when President Trump with the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, left, and the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, at the White House, almost immediately after he took office.) <br /><br />From Putin's perspective, we betrayed a promise, aggressively. And we need to take his perspective into account - while despising its inherent rejection of popular will. He will NEVER accept a Ukraine capable of democratic self-governing sovereignty. He has said so.<br /><br />I do not conclude with a prediction but with odds. There is a chance for a temporary face-saving gesture, allowing a pullback by all forces. I give that maybe 30%. But Biden cannot give VP what he demands. And that makes things dangerous, indeed. And each day that passes means more Ukrainians who have trained in Poland to use Javelin missiles and anti-aircraft systems.<br /><br />There is a factor no one discusses. And that is Putin using earlier preparations to strike at us at home. And another factor: that he may receive help from another rising power to whom (I speculate) he has already surreptitiously sold large swathes of Siberia.<br /><br />Too much? Well, I am paid to speculate. Do not encourage.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-33200912865089421362022-01-21T08:54:04.488-08:002022-01-21T08:54:04.488-08:00Maybe, but she's coming from a German perspect...<i>Maybe, but she's coming from a German perspective, which isn't the same as the American one.<br /><br />It took me a while to notice that leftists actually have some power in her country.</i><br /><br />Also note that the American "left" is to the right of what's generally considered left-wing in most of the world. Enough so that your "socialist" Bernie Sanders would be on the right of the average left-wing party, yet is apparently considered to be radically left in American politics.<br /><br />https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020<br /><br />Come to that, the political right is also different. <br /><br />https://www.politicalcompass.org/counterpoint-20211001-german-electionRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909011338723657265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-64069960310278968252022-01-21T07:18:27.528-08:002022-01-21T07:18:27.528-08:00Too busy to read all comments so far, but I though...Too busy to read all comments so far, but I thought I would give an update on a personal matter:<br /><br />We just closed on the house purchase today. We will be celebrating with the sellers tonight. It is exactly 3 weeks since we got into contract (and 3 weeks and 2 days since we saw the “for sale” sign in their yard.” The realtor/agent was amazed and happy too…he said this was the easiest transaction he has ever worked on in 35+ years in the profession. He was worried about having two lawyers involved as seller and buyer; but we were happy to leave everything to him rather than try and make it up ourselves.<br /><br />As for Duncan’s comment, that would be a very unwise thing for the Dems to do. They would be creating a precedent. They might assume that their party will always control both houses of Congress and the presidency, but the public is not strongly identified with the Dems. They might enrage the public so much that you end up with a GOP wave and, even with a bunch of Senators and House members removed from office, the GOP still regains control of both houses. Then those precedents would come back to haunt the Dems.GMT -5 8032https://www.blogger.com/profile/04677459423995332529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-4081135474301873402022-01-21T03:55:46.871-08:002022-01-21T03:55:46.871-08:00We might be a few weeks or days away from a chain ...We might be a few weeks or days away from a chain of events that all our hopes and fears for the future might not matter anymore. Ironically, it might be Putin who saves Biden and the Dems (and the rest of the West) when or if he invades Ukraine.<br /><br />First, it might become a very costly long-term engagement for the Russians. While the regular army will likely be defeated fast, the Ukraine is already training stay-behind forces to disappear into the hills, and he will have to content with a population that does not support him. Together with sanctions from the rest of the world, except very possibly China, this will force him to end engagements elsewhere, eventually. Leaving Power Vacuums and increased chances of success there.<br /><br />Second, if or when American and Allied forces are sent more and more into the region, it might suddenly become very important if a person or party had cozier relationships with Moskau than it would be advisable. It could cost them dearly. Unity in times of war and crisis could help to heal the wounds he was partly responsible for. The same could be true for Europe, and increase the number of countries that suddenly want to join the NATO and pay their agreed-upon sum for their defense budget. Much of the year-long labor of FSB and GRU to keep us apart and divided might be undone in a few weeks.<br /><br />That is, unless nuclear weapons start flying ... in that case, everyone will loose.Der Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977602334642769985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-45180842743467265142022-01-20T20:50:49.959-08:002022-01-20T20:50:49.959-08:00scidata, you mean the Denzel? Looking fwd to it.
-...scidata, you mean the Denzel? Looking fwd to it.<br />--<br />No matter how much evidence, Duncan, that would set off hot civil war. There is ONLY one way to accomplish that, and it is by getting the blackmailed ones to fess up and resign. And that will only happen if JoeB offers advance clemency for transparency. And no one (who matters) listens to me.<br />--<br />Matthew you are right about the solution... though Manchin is not Satan. He is a dem senator from the reddest state! He made Schumer maj leader, neuteredMcConnell and made dems all Senate committe chairs, including Liz & Bernie. Withouit him, the $2Trillion we DID get would not have happened. <br /><br />So yes, build and fight for the coalition! And remember it IS a coalition! And the way to weaken M&S is to add a majority.<br /><br />--<br />Paradoc: "The racist response to "stop wasting talent" is to deny that anyone with dark skin-tint has talent. " Yes, but those kinds of racists are NOT the problem! They are a small minority. The vast majority of MAGAs point to their favorite blacks etc and say "I'd support him through hell! So I'm not racist!"<br /><br />They admit skin color is not the determinant, but rather cult loyalty. Ironically, that opens a wedge for "stop wasting talent."David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-84798874407233280812022-01-20T20:36:41.537-08:002022-01-20T20:36:41.537-08:00Well, that was the most Dorian Grayish Macbeth eve...Well, that was the most Dorian Grayish Macbeth ever.<br />By the pricking of my thumbs,<br />Something wicked this way comes.scidatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07152319593457629592noreply@blogger.com