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TwiceHorn

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  1. Egg-zachary.
  2. As an engineer myself, except one with an actual degree, such technocrats can be really dangerous in positions outside their narrow expertise, if any. This is especially true of some code-monkey savants under 25 years of age. I think there's something even worse about operating and navigating in the abstract world of electrons, bits, bytes, and strings of code that make these kind of geeks worse than many or most of those that have gone before. Being smart, especially in a very narrow field, does not guarantee competence, even in that field. Look at the conspiratorial ramblings of this tool.https://substack.com/@weeklybyte
  3. Aggy. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clayton+cromer&ia=web#:~:text=Clayton J. Cromer - lw.com That will open a pdf, because he's been scrubbed from Latham & Watkins website.
  4. A whopping 53 lbs in 2024 and ytd. Compared to 26,400 lbs everywhere for the same period. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/drug-seizure-statistics
  5. This is what happens when you uncritically get information from social media.
  6. The other thing about tariffs. Assume for a moment that they are immediately effective: people quit buying imported goods and instead pay a premium for domestic goods, or at least goods from non-tariffed nations. Importation slows and stops. Tariff revenue dries up. If they are to be used as a revenue measure, it's taxation of Americans pure and simple. Trying to use them as a revenue measure is pure idiocy.
  7. Peter Navarro is not a serious person. The other two it remains to be seen.
  8. https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-county/dallas-ballot-propositions-voters-18-charter-amendment-proposals/287-e750e702-2461-40ee-a897-94fa9f771acb a/k/a "HERO amendments."
  9. He's also one of the cunts behind Dallas' recent inadvisable voter initiatives, RSTU.
  10. Not to mention all the cockgobbling the GOP has done that got us here. Invertbrates. Fucking paramecia.
  11. Fucking disgusting. Corporatism is out of control and is our number-one problem as a nation. It also happens to be a big sign of a fascist government. It's going to be hard to put that genie back in the bottle.
  12. Well, you do in discussions of pharma practices. But on this foreign policy stuff, I've never seen you do it. Best I have seen is allusions to prior posts. By osmosis, I can tell that you're opposed to military adventurism fueled at least partially by intelligence failures or manipulation, the civilian casualties they entail, and violations of civil rights by the intelligence-gathering apparatus. I'll give Gabbard some small credit for opposing those violations, but I don't think when push comes to shove in this office she'll be the guardian of civil and human rights that you seem to think she will be.
  13. Dick is way too big. Should be pinched between his tiny index finger and thumb.
  14. Ackshually, he strenuously avoids committing to any position on anything.
  15. By that standard, Mike Flynn deserves to be president. National Guard service and a political career don't immunize a person from criticism, nor does it establish competence. She claims to be a reformer. Any of the current "reform" reassuring you that any of her reforms will be measured or actually improve anything?
  16. At some point, you'll learn to stop being credulous on the internet. https://6abc.com/post/black-box-found-medical-jet-crashed-northeast-philadelphia-sources/15858101/
  17. The point is not whether anyone agrees with the talking points she spewed in her confirmation hearing. The point is that she is feckless, inexperienced, unqualified, and invertebrate. And she's appointed to be a stooge. The theater of a confirmation hearing doesn't change any of that.
  18. Now I know that you and @dcbc are around my age yet have fathers old enough to have served in WWII.
  19. Very glad he recovered and you could rekindle your relationship on a positive basis. A whole lot of drunks and addicts are at their core great people if recovery can just unleash them.
  20. Yeah, and I guess clearcutting has its place in forest management as well. But I would expect the Trump administration to do it for profit and without regard to good forestry practices. Sadly, part of the South's ascendance in timber production is abuse of rural and rural minority families to take their timberland and put it in production when they hadn't properly descended their lands.
  21. Trump thinks they should just die. https://time.com/7002003/donald-trump-disabled-americans-all-in-the-family/
  22. Notice I said "clearcutting." I would expect that we log federal land, because unlike sweeping forest floors, it's how you keep forests healthy from disease and fire.
  23. I was a timber manager/owner for 20 years and my parents 40 years before that. Timber prices mainly varied with the amount of importation/supply from Canada. Of course, what was good for me as a timber owner was bad for the construction industry and homebuyers. Note that as of that article, the tariff rate was 14.5 percent, having been raised from about 2-3%.
  24. And disappear to avoid engaging on their "dissenting opinions." And later whinge in Daily Texan or elsewhere about the "librul cabal."
  25. I think she stated a lot of intentions that are at odds with her history. So can't be proven as lies. In other words, her testimony was tailored to win confirmation. Which, of course, all such testimony is, but like most things Trump-related, turned to 11.
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