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MAGA doesn't build
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 3 Likes • last year
“Instead of a "Fourth Turning", we got a backward-looking, destructive regime.”
Smith takes a different approach: MAGA isn't as bad as the Nazis... it's worse! At least the Nazis built stuff. MAGA has never built anything. MAGA destroys. MAGA is nihilist. There are links in the seed.
America's Pernicious Rural Myth: An Interview with Steven Conn
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 10 Comments • last year
“Narratives about rural crisis seem to trap American discourse in a cycle of crisis and myth”
A couple weeks ago, I seeded "Why are trucks so big?" We had a pretty good conversation, which bled over into a another interesting conversation about "rurality", a subject I've been thinking a lot about since Mark from Wyoming lit me up on the topic a year ago. I had thought the subject...
Trump is "desperate" to make a deal—China isn't, analysts say
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 10 Comments • 2 Likes • last year
“China apparently gains upper hand, while TikTok's fate hangs in the balance”
Does anyone - anyone at all - still imagine that these people have any idea what they're doing? Flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop..... There are links in the seed.
Senior Iranian Ayatollah: England Invented Story Of Holocaust
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 2 Likes • last year
“In his speech for International Qods Day, Ayatollah Ahmad Alam Al-Hoda, a senior Iranian official, said that "all the stories about the Holocaust...”
We live under a perpetual barrage of propaganda about the middle east - the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The Muslim world also lives with a constant flood of propaganda on the same subject... but not at all the same content. If you want to get a sample more regularly than...
Cronyism, Capitulation and Utter Chaos
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“And what the hell was Scott Bessent doing briefing Morgan clients?”
Paul is shocked that a senior Trump economic advisor gave inside information about upcoming policy to a closed meeting of bankers. Well... yeah... that is really shocking! Or not. 'Cause that's precisely what Trump was elected to do: make lots of money for the already-rich. Even Krugman...
Escape Velocity: The energy transition has momentum and will be hard to stop
Via: Bob Nelson • Environment/Climate • 4 Comments • 2 Likes • last year
“Not even Trump can slow the shift to renewable energy”
This is important. The energy transition - from fossil fuels to electricity - is now. China is leading it. America is trying to stop it. America is willfully being backward. Losing more and more ground to its greatest rival. I'll be seeding lots on this topic. Trump isn't just destroying...
