Cliff Varnell

Exactly. JFK suffered a shallow wound in soft tissue between T3 and the upper margin of his right shoulder blade. 6.5mm Full Metal Jacket rounds never leave shallow wounds in soft tissue. Why is CE399 a topic of discussion at all?

You don’t understand the insults you make? Come back in five years when you’re more mature.

There’s a difference equating the worst of American foreign with Hitler? False dichotomy on your part. Which has nothing to do with what I wrote about Putin and Trump — points you appear incapable of addressing

“Just don’t go down the track of America the virtuous, defending freedom and liberty all over the globe. “ You have to figure out your behavior on your own Failure to rebut is British? So you deny that Putin blamed the West for the break-up of the Soviet Union? So contentless. See, that’s a starting point for an amicable debate you don’t appear capable of.

I don’t drink. I recall you posting some right wing snowflake who freaked out over Biden bringing notes to a press conference. Like the way you freak out over bad words about Vlad. Goes without saying, but you can’t rebut what I *did* say about Vlad. And in 2016 they tilted to Trump — a fact you appear incapable of processing. You can’t directly address my points on Putin and Trump. At what point does your inability to face facts get old for the reader?

You don’t think Putin is angry about the break-up of the Soviet Union? Or is that an idea confirmation bias prevents you from understanding? So the MSM tilt to Trump doesn’t register with you. Don’t go down the road of smearing someone because they have a different view of Putin than you. You’re better than that, Chris.

I rejected your characterization of globalism and Party politics — you didn’t even attempt a rebuttal. I outlined both Trump and Putin’s motivation, but again no rebuttal. You haven’t made the the Contentless Dismissal all-stars yet, but your future looks bright.

This surely can’t be your most cogent response...surely you can come up with more than contentless dismissal. The MSM largely ignored the Russia-Hack-DNC story in 2016. You ignore that fact entirely. So if I say Vladimir Putin is a bad guy you get bent?

In 2016, yes, Russian Interference that made 2 news cycles in the last 5 months, nothing in the 24 hour cycles over the last 70 days before the election. Putin sought revenge for the break-up of the USSR: long-time Kremlin $laundry man Trump was perfect for the role of Democracy denier. Right wingers who go on and on about stolen elections and “civil war” are Putin’s useful idiots.

I reject the characterization. The corporate wing of the Democratic Party is no more or less globalist than the Republican corporate wing. A lot of Globalists opposed the Iran nuke deal Obama pushed thru in 2015. They cheered when Trump pulled out. That’s not “interventionist”? Putin communicated one instruction to Trump in 2016 — challenge the integrity of every election, even the ones Trump wins.

There was no Russian Interference narrative in the MSM before or after the 2018 midterms. There was no Russian Interference narrative in the MSM before or after the 2020 election. There was very little about Russian Interference before the 2022 midterms, nothing after. How many times did the Russia-Hacks-DNC story make the 24-hour cable news cycle in 2016? Twice. June 14/15 and July 24/25. On Oct. 7, 2016 the United States Government formally accused the Russian Government of interfering in the US election. This earthquake of a news story was reported on cable news at 3:30pm EST and never repeated. Trump-adjacent snowflake Glenn Greenwald calls this “maximalist.”

Chet Helms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Helms

I voted to recall...Free and fair elections are common in Cali.

Coming from someone who predicted a Red Wave. The outcome in the House is unknown, btw...

Quiet desperation.

“Maggie’s Farm,” Newport ‘ 65. Pete grabbed an ax, rattled by the volume, but cooler heads prevailed. The first rap video.

Blue Tuesday after all. Called it! Trump Insurrection shut down! Democrats make quiet history with state-level gains https://www.axios.com/2022/11/11/state-legislatures-governors-democrats

All good. Just don’t gripe about the money in politics.

Bobby D skips the folk rock right into punk.

Add LSD and rocknroll to Beat and ya got yr counter-culture. I’d say Neal Cassady passed the Beat torch to Ken Kesey. A big difference between SF and NY ‘65 - ‘67 was the drug of choice. Here they did Cid, in NY heroin.

The original psych scene? Name one British psych band from 1965... Wrong. SF led the psych scene in 1965 with the Airplane, the Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & the Holding Co. Then came Roky Erickson in Austin with The Spades and 13th Floor Elevators. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Floor_Elevators If you’re referring to Roky that’s badly misinformed. You get some points back for the Bill Hicks vid.

Dave McGowern? C’mon Matthew, you can do better than this...Learn your rocknroll history, son.

Who’s Dave McGowern and why should we believe in him?

Why the ACLU Is Wrong About ‘Citizens United’ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/why-aclu-wrong-about-citizens-united/

https://time.com/3445010/ruth-bader-ginsburg-citizens-united/ https://www.vox.com/2016/7/11/12148066/ruth-bader-ginsburg-citizens-united