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Of course they were, you clown. Their pre-crime unit normally would have picked up on something as coordinated and sophisticated as "guy in a truck." The paper trail and chatter must have been off the charts. Something must have gone wrong. Possibly there was a minority report?

Eh, if you're dumb enough to blame the Ukraine war and the massacre in Israel on Joe Biden (and let's face it, you are) them clearly this is an inevitable attack "provoked and emboldened" by the impending a Trump inauguration and his publicly disclosed policy positions.

Only fools believed that Elon Musk bought Twitter to champion free speech. And only the dumbest of the dumb still believe it today. That cat has been very visibly out of the bag since just after the acquisition.

Dumb and dishonest taken to new lows.

Is it really? We're talking about a self-confessed sex criminal, con-man and fraudster whose primary consideration in the nominating process has been personal loyalty. Who would be more loyal than a like-minded perv with a closet full of skeletons and no other options?

I had no idea. Sounds like the Tan Suit Crisis all over again. The libertarian nutballs would prefer a hodgepodge of toll roads crossing private property with whatever rules and standards the owner applies agreed to by contract when the toll is paid. -- And they just haven't figured out how to manage flying toll booths.

This all tracks. A super "smart" trend that could make all of America as great as the for-profit prison system. Up next: Do we really need an interstate highway system?

Flat earthers don't need coddling. They should be thoroughly mocked until they shut their ignorant mouths and open a goddamn book.

They should, absolutely. We'll be the backward farking stupid arseholes trying to spread diseases that were once eradicated.

That's unbelievably stupid. Like, literally, it's hard to believe that a functional adult could say such a thing. Vaccines have saved millions and millions of lives. The measles vaccine alone has saved almost a hundred million. Vaccines have single handedly cut infant mortality in half. You haven't done "research." You've sought out crackpot internet sites to match your "skeptical" search queries. The Internet is too dangerous for you. Cancel your service and leave the research to the researchers.

Who needs doctors and scientists when you have Brain Worm and Bleach Blood on the case. Idiocracy come to life. Welcome back, polio! Reuters U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, about ending childhood vaccination programs. When asked if he would sign off if Kennedy decided to end childhood vaccinations programs, Trump told Time magazine, "we're going to have a big discussion. The autism rate is at a level that nobody ever believed possible. If you look at things that are happening, there's something causing it." When asked if the discussion could result in his administration getting rid of some vaccinations, Trump said: "It could if I think it's dangerous, if I think they are not beneficial, but I don't think it's going to be very controversial in the end." Asked in the Nov. 25 interview if he thinks childhood autism is linked to vaccines, Trump said: "No, I'm going to be listening to Bobby," referring to Kennedy. Trump said he had a lot of respect for Kennedy and his views on vaccinations.

Yes, goofus, one of the world's preeminent immunologists with massive influence on the field does, indeed, qualify as an expert. Sorry that the science didn't align with your politics, but that's life. Being scapegoated by the ignorant asshats on Fox doesn't un-make an expert.

Let's be clear: you and I both know that you're not capable of anything beyond blind trust. You don't don't have any awareness of or interest in data, and no facility for reason. You are simply going to blindly follow whoever says something contrary to the "elites," whom you jealously mistrust. That's why you're a "case in point" and here you're just making the point again. Experts are experts because they have the information, training and aptitude to excel in their fields. They are "elite" because they achieve in those fields far beyond their peers and light years beyond what laypeople are able to follow. They aren't your enemies, even though they sometimes offer you truths that are inconvenient. If you were "mature" instead of simply old, you'd appreciate their work. But instead you plug your ears and wait for some know-nothing politician to tell you something vastly less informed but far more palatable. And here we see how the Republican party has become intolerable to the learned.

"Nothing could be further from the truth"? ^^ Case in point. If you looked at data instead of your feelings you'd already know that this is actually--and alarmingly--true. There's an entire political movement premised on the idea that the people voting will believe any dumb thing they are told if it runs against those pesky experts, elites and institutions. Facts: More facts:

Your commitment to carrying Trump's water is impressive, but no, it was not a lie. Trump's people were meeting with Russian intelligence. And you farking know it. The damn Durham report, though full of criticisms of the FBI, acknowledged that investigation was merited.

You keep sticking with that. Meanwhile... §2384. Seditious conspiracy If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. ^^Good thing none of that happened before or on Jan 6. 🙄

I'd lean toward attempted extortion in this case. What's interesting about that letter is that Jay-Z clearly wrote it himself. It's not a crafted comment from his attorney. It feels like immediate, emotional pushback. He didn't take any time to figure out if if it could have been him, if he had an alibi, how he could fight it, etc. The indignation feels righteous.

James Carville doesn't live inside your ass, so naturally his view of the world will be quite different from yours. You see, out here presidents aren't responsible for terrorist attacks halfway around the world or land grabs initiated solely by your pal, Vlad Out here, immigration law is immigration law and we should change the law if we want the executive to have more control. And out here, Biden masterfully navigated us out of the Trump dumpster fire into an economy that recovered faster and stronger, with less pain, to again become the envy of the world. You should pull your head out sometime and look around.

So true. If you have a god in your life you things like the crusades, the inquisition, the troubles, 9/11, etc. all become moral. Like magic. He works in mysterious ways.

🤷‍♂️ Centuries of Western jurisprudence does buy that victims are not at fault for being victimized. That's why we hold fraudsters and scammers liable. It's why Bernie Madoff's victims were able to claw back what was left of their money. Etc. Etc.

Nice spin, but no sale. The bots are bad--and only more visible as the mass exodus of users continues. It's become even more of a cesspool of hate and disinformation. That's what has driven people out. It's what's driven the value into the toilet. This is is like a Brewster's Millions scheme where somebody dared Elon Musk to burn $40 billion dollars as fast as he could. Good news for Threads and Bluesky though.

Well, sure, consumers could do things to avoid becoming victims, but if they knew better they wouldn't in that situation in the first place. An elderly woman I know recently lost about $400 to a fake bank scam. There's a pretty long list of red flags that could have alerted her to the fact of the scam. But it's hard to blame the victim for not being smart or savvy enough to defend themselves. Tucker wasn't lying to people to take money directly from them, but he was lying to them for his own financial gain. There are a lot of dumb people out there. And there are ignorant people out there. Gullible people. -- A lot of them from a generation when those faces on the TV had a business model based on being trusted and reliable. Before the cable news infotainment wave. People who grew up with Walter Cronkite or Tom Brokaw just aren't prepared to vet and filter. They have no natural immunity. At any rate, yes, people who exploit others are victimizing the exploited. They are scamming them. Conning them. Those perpetrators are to blame for their actions and any damage the victims suffer.

For being a smart guy, Elon Musk is pretty dumb about people. Chalk it up to neurodiversity if you like, but his gross mismanagement of Twitter/X is ample evidence of his unfitness to run the human side of of an enterprise. Right after the acquisition, before he understood the company at all, he started cutting "unnecessary" roles and functions to disastrous results. Now we're going to replay that horror show on a national scale. Nobody likes waste and fraud. We just acknowledge that Musk is demonstrably unfit to make such judgments.

I'd disagree with this. It's unlikely that he was evil. He was a businessperson hired to run a business. No more, no less. He's no more responsible for customer wellbeing than the CEO of Ford or Microsoft. Remember that neither the company nor that specific job is grounded in patient care. That's not their purpose. What he was hired to do, is to create profit for the shareholders. That means figuring out how can they spend as little on health care as possible while not losing customers to other companies with the same objective. A system built on perverse incentives delivers perverse outcomes.

Sheriff Chad Chronister withdraws from consideration for Drug Enforcement post Batting average for "the best people" not great.