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Listened to the interview with Harris twice. Other than what I consider dogmatic support of the 2nd Amendment, I found his thinking about the killings and unprofessional tactics of the Troopers in line with my own thoughts on the matter.

I’m not an observer. In fact, I am not even sure anyone here pays any attention to it.

I only observed 11 November Remembrance Day and in the past several years 27 January Holocaust Remembrance Day.

@Horace said in ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis:

Sam's self-excavated echo chamber of one sure has had some consequences.

In what way? Has he upset his libertarian followers and folks will now boycott his podcasts?

@LuFins-Dad

A year ago I would probably agree, but now I am not so certain it’s all straw. There’s plenty of alfalfa and oats in what Phibes posted.

I think the time has come for Parliament to pass an Act of Attainder and advise HRH to order that butt of Malmsey wine for Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor. As for his estranged spouse, Ms Ferguson, we’ll let the Convent’s Mother Superior deal with her perpetual penance.

From what I have read, Warsh appears to be qualified for the job. Hasset too, but he’s a brown nosing jerk off.

@Horace said in Kevin Warsh to chair the Fed:

No commentary? No dunks?

Happy to oblige.

I was hoping it would be that sycophantic toad, Kevin Hasset.

You’re welcome.

The only recording of Springsteen as front man vocalist I have ever liked is the Seeger Sessions cover of O Mary Don’t you Weep. Look it up on YouTube.

Everything else he’s done leaves me cold. This latest foray into the folk sub genre of protest and social commentary is no different. He is no match for the likes of Joan Baez or the late Phil Ochs..

More extortionist rhetoric from the WH:

"Based on the fact that Canada has wrongfully, illegally and steadfastly refused to certify the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700 and 800 Jets, one of the greatest, most technologically advanced airplanes ever made, we are hereby decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all Aircraft made in Canada, until such time as Gulfstream, a Great American Company, is fully certified," the president wrote.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-decertify-canadian-planes-9.7067498

I just thought you would have already found that out on your own.

@LuFins-Dad said in the-origin-story-of-syphilis-goes-back-far-longer-than-we-thought:

Still involved sheep, though.

Actually, llamas. I read somewhere years ago, that syphilis is endemic among llama populations in Peru. As well, we know the Spaniards and Portuguese introduced it to Europe after contact with the Natives in the Caribbean and Mezoamerica. Seems like a fair trade- we bring smallpox in exchange for syphilis.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/25667961029540569/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

@Doctor-Phibes

And the argument that 'Sure, you've got a right to carry, but don't complain or be surprised if it gets you killed' is intellectually bankrupt.

As far as I’m concerned the continued adherence to and argument for a person’s “the right to bear arms” is intellectually bankrupt. It is a relic from a bygone era when the country was an infant union of individual states located on a huge and sparsely populated frontier on a remote continent during the age of black powder muzzleloaders.

It really has no place or real purpose in a post industrial society that is defined by rule of law and established robust institutions of governance.

@horace

You can psycho-analyze Pretti and his hypothetical motives to engage in obstruction, mischief and hooliganism against ICE until Hell freezes over. Likewise, the irrelevancy of his apparent religious zealotry in opposition to ICE’s mission and tactics. The fact remains that Pretti never used his firearm against ICE troopers in the two documented incidents.

I saw that video clip on a BBC Verify clip last night. Pretti ought to have been detained there and then on the spot and turned over to the Minneapolis Police or the FBI. At the very least Public Mischief and Hooliganism charges would have been appropriate. As well, his open carry permit rescinded and firearm confiscated. Responsible law enforcement at that time could have averted last Saturday’s tragedy.

@taiwan_girl

The spring on that clock was wound then immediately seized up last May when Trump’s Special Dummkopf arrived at the Kremlin without a US vetted interpreter to meet with Putin.

@Doctor-Phibes

But they govern as conservatives.

Witkoff and Kushner are out!

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will not participate in the next round of negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday.

“[Russia and Ukraine] are going to follow up talks again this week. In that regard, bilateral. There might be a US presence, but it won’t be Steve and Jared,” Rubio said.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/68977

And the there’s this…you guessed it, it’s all about Steve “Dim Philby” Witkoff:

Trump's top envoy negotiating Ukraine's fate displays 'shocking' lack of knowledge about war, politics…

A senior U.S. envoy involved in efforts to end Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine has displayed a lack of basic understanding of Ukraine's political system and the war itself while speaking in a closed conversation with a small group of reporters, the Kyiv Independent has learned.

https://kyivindependent.com/trumps-top-envoy-displays-shocking-lack-of-knowledge-about-war-politics/

I hope Rubio eviscerates the fool; his playing diplomat has done nothing but give the Kremlin a green light to escalate the war and make the US look like Putin’s Muggins.

@Doctor-Phibes

We've had to listen to decades of extreme rhetoric from the right about the God-given right to carry guns, and suddenly we need to temper this with a bit of common sense?

I’d be careful if I were you, invocations of God given rights in conjunction with firearms could conjure up a blowhard ghost from the past.