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MC Fresh Breath

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  1. https://apnews.com/article/elections-pennsylvania-donald-trump-congress-cfa625f007ef38c18727a1755dec4a4f
  2. Meta also owns Instagram and Whatsapp. And fuck Nebraska. Goddamn.
  3. Sounds like this is the thread for this: https://newrepublic.com/article/167351/ron-desantis-lgbtq-trans-florida-republicans
  4. another one I read recently that I enjoyed. its a long read www.currentaffairs.org/2022/04/noam-chomsky-on-how-to-prevent-world-war-iii you may not agree with everything in it, but its a good representation of the overall world view. Fair enough. Again, apologies for any perceived slight.
  5. The dismissal of Russia and diplomatic attempts seemed very Western thought to me. I didn't mean it as a slight. @Serak The Preparer I hope I haven't presented myself as an expert. I do enjoy reading expert thoughts that don't always align (such as Chomsky) with the majority of thought in this country.
  6. Nope. Did not ignore Russia's choices. But it is strange that you're accusing myself ( and Chomksy?) of a Western centric view and then the rest of your paragraph gives a very Western centric take on the entire affair. What is the alternative to some form of diplomacy that we are not even attempting? To, as former ambassador Chas Freeman puts it "fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian?"
  7. I think of you as a sincere poster, so I'll respond to you, although you may find it disappointing. The "urgent diplomacy" line in that article I believe came from the interviewer. This is a decent summary, I believe of Chomsky's thoughts on the matter: https://scheerpost.com/2022/06/17/noam-chomsky-in-ukraine-diplomacy-has-been-ruled-out/ Entire thing worth a read. Esp for the background. I think the correct 'response' is too late. However, could there have been provocations prior (detailed better in that article than I could do myself) that perhaps should not have taken place? I can't answer your question as to exactly what that diplomacy would look like, but what I think doesn't really matter. As Chomsky points out, we won't choose it. We will choose war. We will keep the machine churning
  8. in the longer version of that interview he apparently also stated that "There are conversations on the phone stating that Jones & Infowars had a back channel for communicating with Ted Cruz"
  9. Trump real estate appraiser hands over thousands of documents to N.Y. AG in civil probe https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/08/trump-real-estate-appraiser-hands-over-thousands-of-documents-to-ny-ag-in-civil-probe.html He's having a great week! The best week!
  10. I'm not the first to point this out at all. But I keep coming back to there are multiple illegal things dude did to pick from. We've been so inured to him getting away with it we're all speculating as to which thing they went after him for.
  11. Certainly not a headline you see every day.
  12. Ah, well that's all I needed then. Carry on.
  13. Is Chomsky a Putin propagandist? As to Hedges: But go ahead and disregard everything he has to say. Go Merica. Go CIA. We were always at war with Eurasia.
  14. So, you thought you might like to go to the show?
  15. I don't necessarily get the "pro"'s you cite based on that one interview. But I know you're well versed in the musician world so maybe you know more than me about him. That stated, the 'randomness' I find a bit refreshing. Part of not being categorized into the binary options we present here in the US as somehow sane.
  16. Preach Dick Cheney is about 1b under Kissinger's 1a in my personal "most evil Americans alive" list. Fucker should be rotting in an international prison somewhere. He quite literally is responsible for more deaths than Trump. W's re-election after everything America knew about him and Cheney was the exact point I knew this country was fucked. Of course that was back when the Cloak Room would neg you to death for thinking that way. Opposite of today. Not too many people talking about a ledge. Cheney calling someone else evil is Stalin talking about stopping Hitler.
  17. Also, Henry Kissinger is still fucking alive. Holy fuck.
  18. Fair enough. But I contend Nixon and the weasels he surrounded himself with (who wound up in Reagan, Bush, Bush jr. administrations) are the very reason we have arrived at this point.
  19. Man, whenever people cry about the way a small bbs talks of the political dead, it gets amusing. Not a single person on this board knew her or her family. And I would say the majority, including myself, had no idea who she was until she died in a car wreck. For literally everyone here she is just another sad stat in the 'died in a car wreck' category. But let's write a treatise on acting classy on a board that prides itself on being surly. Speaking of class and dead politicians, things like this have a way of reminding me of the Hunter S. Thompson Nixon Obit. Which I love and use any excuse to re-read.
  20. So at some point aren't some maybe more powerful/capable lawyers for clients that are potentially on that phone going to get involved? Maybe offer Reynal a 'listen up and do this?' Does that kind of thing happen?
  21. Man, this one made me sad from afar. An Austin institution for sure.
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