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3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Lulz. It’s ok, you don’t understand how this specific process has worked, or more generally how the adcom process works. I told y'all the strains were already selected with the FDA and CDCs involvement.you are correct that there are lots bad processes at the FDA. I thought that this had become obvious to most during the COVID period, but maybe not. 

I hope it yields a good result, and this isn’t my area of expertise. But I’m not sure how removing independent external experts  makes the decisions of public bureaucracies better. 

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He knows what he is doing, this is all just a game to them.

It’s their new thing. “Don’t be shitty to us just because of our political beliefs. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to get back to burning this country to the ground for Russia.”
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2 hours ago, royiv said:


Only a matter of time before all colleges and universities are remade into Trump University.

Trump administration outlines ‘next steps’ toward restoring Columbia grants

Oh, it’s about to get a lot worse in Texas:

Texas bill would increase oversight of universities’ hiring, curriculum and compliance

Senate Bill 37 would create a state office to investigate complaints against universities and require governing boards to ensure courses don’t endorse certain ideologies.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/texas-universities-governing-boards-hiring-curricula-faculty-senates/

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:


Gavin Newsom, perhaps the front runner for the dem nomination in 2028, started a podcast last week. His first guest was Charlie Kirk. We are so screwed.

At this point, our only shot is for 1) invasion of Canada, leading to a hot war, which 2) leads to mutiny among members of the military and/or secession by multiple states that will not go along with the madness, leading to 3) civil war, and then 4) maybe when it's all over, and we've only used 3-5 nukes on our own soil, we can slowly reconstitute ourselves into a functioning nation with 5% of its former prosperity and power.

I'm thinking that's our BEST case scenario, FFS.

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19 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I hope it yields a good result, and this isn’t my area of expertise. But I’m not sure how removing independent external experts  makes the decisions of public bureaucracies better. 

I told you earlier up thread. The adcom is just a rubber stamp. The political hay, to the extent it is to be made here, is pointing out the role of the WHO GIDP group and the necessity of effective collaboration between FDA/CDC and that group. Despite the loud public rhetoric from the admin leaving the WHO, the key partners were waived to engage with the GIDP flu surveillance group, shared our data, and contributed to the strain selection process. Which is good, it's an important process. And that engagement needs to continue in the future. There is lots to criticize the WHO about, but this is an important function. Our political climate doesn't allow for much nuance though, so here we are. Take those talking points as my gift to you, and next time miss me with the @ when you run across a tweet in a subject matter area that you have no idea how it works.      

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16 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

At this point, our only shot is for 1) invasion of Canada, leading to a hot war, which 2) leads to mutiny among members of the military and/or secession by multiple states that will not go along with the madness, leading to 3) civil war, and then 4) maybe when it's all over, and we've only used 3-5 nukes on our own soil, we can slowly reconstitute ourselves into a functioning nation with 5% of its former prosperity and power.

I'm thinking that's our BEST case scenario, FFS.

Maybe make Canada the 51st state. Republicans never win another national election and we get universal health care. 

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:


They’re scared. Plain and simple. Most don’t want the mob sicked on them and/or eventually sent to a camp or prison.

 

2 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Then it's all over, this is a dictatorship run by the dumbest dictator since Nero, and we all might as well just enjoy every day the system and infrastructure hasn't collapsed on our heads and killed us. 

 

Correct.  It's over, and the Democrats know it's over, and they are afraid of what is coming, and rightly so.

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24 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

At this point, our only shot is for 1) invasion of Canada, leading to a hot war, which 2) leads to mutiny among members of the military and/or secession by multiple states that will not go along with the madness, leading to 3) civil war, and then 4) maybe when it's all over, and we've only used 3-5 nukes on our own soil, we can slowly reconstitute ourselves into a functioning nation with 5% of its former prosperity and power.

I'm thinking that's our BEST case scenario, FFS.

Let's say just for a second the country gets incredibly lucky, again, and there are actually elections in 2026. And Republicans get hammered because of this insanity, and trump backs down because he doesn't want to be arrested after getting impeached by a Democrat Congress. 

Either in 2028. Or 2030. Or 2032... Americans will turn it all back over to Republicans. 

There's no hope because there's no learning from mistakes. There's no acknowledgement of reality. It's rinse and repeat until the country has devolved into Russia. 

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1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Maybe make Canada the 51st state. Republicans never win another national election and we get universal health care. 

You'd have to have an election for that to happen.

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4 hours ago, Red Five said:


They’re scared. Plain and simple. Most don’t want the mob sicked on them and/or eventually sent to a camp or prison.

Then they need to leave office. Plain and simple. If you're afraid of what the "other side's" supporters might do to you, how can you fucking govern at that point?

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Just now, 956 Worldwide said:

The a-list chud online personalities get swatted while the d-listers get this treatment.  Huge LULZ at the FBI tracking pizza orders.

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Yeah.  Until these assholes face much greater consequences, this is middle school fart jokes.

Papa John's won't move the needle.

Luigi will.

Those are just true facts.  Stupid that we're here, but here we are.

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4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If we eliminate federal income tax because tariffs are covering the bills, but the increased prices due to tariffs are being paid by the people, isn’t it just a shell game?  
how are the rich going to avoid what is essentially a sales or consumption tax, when income tax creativity isn’t available to them?

That would be amazing actually. And as you said, the rich can't avoid it, even better!

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2 hours ago, South Austin said:

You mean 57th state.

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Most American's can't even name 5 Canadian provinces. I tried earlier this week and could only name 7.

Spoiler

There are 13. Which, probably 10% of American's know this factoid.

 

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Gosh, I hope they don't get TP'd or (heaven forbid) egged.  Did they get any recent"is your refrigerator running?" phone calls?

Do you have Prince Albert in a can?
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13 minutes ago, DaysOff said:


Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

"Has anybody seen Mike Hunt? Does anybody know where Mike Hunt is? I'm trying to find Mike Hunt!"

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3 minutes ago, C-Man said:

"Has anybody seen Mike Hunt? Does anybody know where Mike Hunt is? I'm trying to find Mike Hunt!"

Our Democrats would never do that.  Too close to a dirty word.  The closest we'd get is "I'm looking for Amanda Huginkiss."  Nope, wait, scratch that - that's kinda homophobic.  Maybe "I'm looking for a Hugh Jass.  Has anyone seen a Hugh Jass?"

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Our Democrats would never do that.  Too close to a dirty word.  The closest we'd get is "I'm looking for Amanda Huginkiss."  Nope, wait, scratch that - that's kinda homophobic.  Maybe "I'm looking for a Hugh Jass.  Has anyone seen a Hugh Jass?"

No, but I think Mike Crack is here. You wanna talk to Mike Crack?

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Mrs. Wood (no pics you animals) and I returned a little while ago from the Veterans Against Trump rally at the Capitol. OK crowd. Very spirited. Very emotional. Extremely defiant toward Trump, Musskolini, Cruz, and Abbott.

'FOXTROT DELTA TANGO!' was a very popular chant.

Pics later on ...

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10 minutes ago, wood said:

Mrs. Wood (no pics you animals) and I returned a little while ago from the Veterans Against Trump rally at the Capitol. OK crowd. Very spirited. Very emotional. Extremely defiant toward Trump, Musskolini, Cruz, and Abbott.

'FOXTROT DELTA TANGO!' was a very popular chant.

Pics later on ...

Until they go full January 6th X100....it's all just noise.

The regime has told the people there is only one way to stop them, and is openly daring the people to do it.  That's the play.  They figure that their appetite for blood is greater than that of the American people.  They're probably right.

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Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

Imagine thinking that the FBI should be able to track pizza purchases but not private gun sales. 

Fuck.  There goes my idea for circumventing all gun laws by offering a Glock as a pizza topping.

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7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

saw a blurb yesterday that musk would use a shutdown to basically nuke very large groups of govt employees 

Essential workers will still work. It’s not like musk and his merry band of dipshits will be roaming empty halls of government 

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Saw this on LI

DARK MAGA*

If you're a little confused about what Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE, here's the breakdown:

Elon Musk and Peter Thiel cofounded a company that became PayPal. 

Other executives at PayPal went on to found or lead other huge tech companies including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many VC firms. 

This group became known as the PayPal mafia because they basically controlled Silicon Valley. 

Peter Thiel mentored a young JD Vance and helped him get set up in his first VC firm. 

Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia funded JD Vance's successful Senate run. Amazing because he had absolutely zero political experience. 

Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign. 

The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug. 

Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent "The Cathedral" that secretly controls power and must be dismantled. 

He advocates for a corporate run, monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator. 

Says that Democracy is an "outdated software" and openly opposes it and that:
-  Government agencies should be dismantled and The U.S. should be broken up into "patchworks" controlled by tech oligarchs. 
- That the elite tech billionaires should rule because they have the intelligence to "fix" society
- That the "masses are asses" too dumb to govern themselves. 

The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating. 

Then to replace government with private corporations.
 
To eliminate elections because they are "obsolete"

To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance. 

Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control. 

This is why Elon wears a black MAGA hat. They are not Trump supporters, they are "Dark MAGA"

This isn't a hypothetical. The plan is already in motion:
- Musk, Thiel, and their network are actively dismantling democratic institutions.
- JD Vance, the “MAGA heir,” is being positioned to help implement this transition.
- The public is too distracted to realize what’s happening.
- If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state.
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That's it. Now that you understand that you can see how everything that's happening fits within that lens. 

Now the only question is what do we do about it? 

That's my Dark Ted Talk. Thanks for listening.
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Sources:
Shane Almgren, Author of "The Trumpland Diaries"
https://lnkd.in/eCHvt4Cj
The Financial Times
https://lnkd.in/ed_7Fv8Q
The New Yorker
https://lnkd.in/e7XDZFyV

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32 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Our Democrats would never do that.  Too close to a dirty word.  The closest we'd get is "I'm looking for Amanda Huginkiss."  Nope, wait, scratch that - that's kinda homophobic.  Maybe "I'm looking for a Hugh Jass.  Has anyone seen a Hugh Jass?"

Gabe Athouse

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15 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Now the only question is what do we do about it? 

Everyone knows what the ultimate answer is.

Everyone is just afraid to say it.

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On 3/12/2025 at 5:45 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I just wanted to remind everybody that this is what JD Vance looks like after he shaves.

 

JD vance with no beard.jpg

the war on masculinity is over! have you said thank you!

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2 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

Most American's can't even name 5 Canadian provinces. I tried earlier this week and could only name 7.

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There are 13. Which, probably 10% of American's know this factoid.

 

There are 10 provinces and 3 territories.

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Mr. "We can't have weaponization of the justice department!" today went to the justice department and talked all about how he is going to have them prosecute people he doesn't like. 

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Posted (edited)
9 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

There are 10 provinces and 3 territories.

without looking

Spoiler

quebec
ontario
manitoba
alberta
saskatchewan
BC
newfoundland
PEI
ninevut
nwt

and... uh...

edit: kinda think yukon but not sure that's not part of nwt

 

Spoiler

nova scotia and new brunswick


 

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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Gosh, I hope they don't get TP'd or (heaven forbid) egged.  Did they get any recent"is your refrigerator running?" phone calls?

Not going to happen with today's prices.

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25 minutes ago, elfenix said:

without looking

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quebec
ontario
manitoba
alberta
saskatchewan
BC
newfoundland
PEI
ninevut
nwt

and... uh...

edit: kinda think yukon but not sure that's not part of nwt

 

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nova scotia and new brunswick


 

That is better than most. I can name the provinces and territories but struggle with the capitols. I got to 7 before I folded.

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22 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

That is better than most. I can name the provinces and territories but struggle with the capitols. I got to 7 before I folded.

Manitoba always seems like one I made up. I know it’s real but whenever I have cause to think of it (so not often), I have some self-doubt that perhaps I imagined it. 

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