Matt Allison Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 As difficult as it is to comprehend, the indictments and arrests for the 1/6 investigation are only beginning. The story of this conspiracy will eventually dwarf every other bit of American history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Sharp Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Matt Allison said: As difficult as it is to comprehend, the indictments and arrests for the 1/6 investigation are only beginning. The story of this conspiracy will eventually dwarf every other bit of American history. Is it coincidence or high strangeness and synchronicity as we approach the 60th anniversary of the assassination in Dallas that four key players indicted for their role in the attempted coup of 2020 — Chesebro Powell Waldron Ramsland — were based in Texas where Alex Jones built his bizarro propaganda operation? Continuity of the coup in Dallas? Edited August 19, 2023 by Leslie Sharp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 America, Georgia's got this By D. Earl Stephens https://www.rawstory.com/america-georgia-s-got-this/ “Our peaceful transfer of power, a hallmark of America, was now being wrecked by the most anti-American president in U.S. history. The son of a bitch had actually attacked us. While law enforcement officers were beaten with flag poles and crushed by the stampede, and lowlifes like Hawley and Cruz hid, Trump sat back in the White House, and for hours and hours did nothing but root for the attack’s success. We know how that day ended, and for more than two years most of us have been waiting for justice to begin. The traitor, Trump, is now facing nearly 100 felony counts across four states for his never-ending attacks on decency and our democracy.” Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 'Friday Night Lights' Author Torches ChatGPT-Assisted Iowa Book Ban https://www.huffpost.com/entry/friday-night-lights-buzz-bissinger-chatgpt-book-ban_n_64df3f13e4b04a3ebc33da63 “The author of “Friday Night Lights” tore into a school district in Iowa that banned his book and 18 others from libraries after officials used ChatGPT to identify books that violated an extreme new state law. H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger ― whose 1990 classic “Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream” chronicled high school football in a Texas town and inspired two TV series and a movie ― spoke with the Mason City Globe Gazette on Wednesday after the newspaper reported last week that the local school district had pulled the book from shelves before the upcoming school year. The book is being “falsely depicted” as inappropriate for children, he said.” “Bridgette Exman, the district’s assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, tried to defend the use of ChatGPT. “Frankly, we have more important things to do than spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to protect kids from books,” the official wrote in an email to PopSci. “At the same time, we do have a legal and ethical obligation to comply with the law.”” What's so amazing to me is that a Party that constantly harps on "personal freedom" is so willing to relinquish it if the "right" people tell them to. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Matt Allison Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 More people died and were injured as a result of the January 6, 2021, attack than in the 1861 Battle of Fort Sumter that began the Civil War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 Disney goes on offense in DeSantis board's lawsuit, seeks damages for breach of contract (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 Lots of good old-fashioned laughs here: Popcorn Gif - PREVAIL by Greg Olear (substack.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Douglas Caddy Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 The year that broke US politics: what 1968 can tell us about 2024 | Books | The Guardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 Succinct summation and to the point: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trump-indictments-political-warfare-comes-home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 22 hours ago, Steve Thomas said: What's so amazing to me is that a Party that constantly harps on "personal freedom" is so willing to relinquish it if the "right" people tell them to. Steve Thomas Gretchen Whitmer Is Taking Her Defense Of Abortion, LGBTQ+ Rights Directly To Red States “It’s a pitch to lure employers and workers to Michigan ― and a pretty major bet about the public’s state of mind.” By Jonathan Cohn August 20, 2023 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-abortion-lgbtq_n_64e0d973e4b0dd561030f596 “Last week, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) launched a digital ad campaign touting the state’s commitment to inclusiveness and personal liberty. Its target is a half-dozen mostly Southern states where Republicans are in charge and have passed laws restricting abortion, LGBTQ+ rights or both. MEDC is a public-private partnership that works with the governor’s office to boost in-state business ― in this case, by appealing to high-skilled workers who tend to cherish those personal freedoms, along with the companies that covet those workers as employees. But this isn’t just another attempt to lure money and people into the state. This is also part of a broader attempt to mount an aggressive defense of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights by putting them together under the banner of “freedom.”” Freedon's not just another word. If you want to talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk. Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose Nothin', don't mean nothin', honey, if it ain't free, no no Yeah, feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues You know feelin' good was good enough for me Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin - Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Douglas Caddy Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 NTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE 1% ERS: 99% of people born between 1930 and 1946 (GLOBALLY) are now dead. If you were born in this time span, your ages range between 77 and 93 years old (a 16-year age span) and you are one of the rare surviving one-percenters. You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900's. You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war that rattled the structure of our daily lives for years. You are the last to remember ration books for everything from tea to sugar to shoes. You saved tin foil and poured fried meat fat into cans. You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in the "milk box" at the front door. Discipline was enforced by parents and teachers. You are the last generation who spent childhood without television and instead, you “imagined” what you heard on the radio. With no TV, you spent your childhood "playing outside". There was no city playground for kids. The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like. We got “black-and-white” TV in the late 50s that had 3 stations and no remote. Telephones (if you had one) were one to a house and hung on the wall in the kitchen (who cares about privacy). Computers were called calculators; they were hand-cranked. Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon. INTERNET and GOOGLE were words that did not exist. Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and your dad would give you the comic pages after he read the news. The news was broadcast on your radio in the evening. The radio network gradually expanded from 3 stations to thousands. New highways would bring jobs and mobility. Most highways were 2 lanes and there were no Motorways. You went downtown to shop. You walked to school. Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into working hard to make a living for their families. You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming family focus. They were glad you played by yourselves. They were busy discovering the postwar world. You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves. You felt secure in your future, although the depression and poverty were deeply remembered. Polio was still a crippler. Everyone knew someone who had it. You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our country. World War 2 was over and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life. Only your generation can remember a time after WW2 when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty. You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better. More than 99% of you are retired now, and you should feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!" If you have already reached the age of 77 years old, you have outlived 99% of all the other people on this planet. You are a 1% 'er! Photo: Esther Collings and her husband Ronald, who were Australia's oldest living couple in 2018. All reactions: 81KYou, RA Kris Millegan, Rob Swan and 81K others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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