Bucky
Bucky's JournalFess up. With Dr. Oz running in Oh.. um... Pennsylvania
Do you want to see him lose the nomination because if Republicans start to break out of their enthrallment with charlatans it would be good for the country, or do you kinda want to see him get the nomination because his record is an embarrassment and that might swing a few more votes to the Democratic nominee?
Martin Luther King's Christmas 1967 sermon (27 minutes)
(you can safely skip the 50 second intro to go straight to the speech)
Do you believe in Ancient Rome? You're a sucker!!
Alcoholics DO get liver transplants.
via https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6876525/
Abstract
Most candidates for liver transplantation have irreversible cirrhosis caused by years of heavy alcohol consumption. Arguments against liver transplantation for alcoholics include the presumption of relapse to heavy drinking, which might damage the new liver or lead to its rejection. Corresponding ethical arguments focus on the presumption that alcoholics brought their condition upon themselves and should not compete with nonalcoholics for scarce donor livers. However, experimental data demonstrate that carefully selected alcoholics can survive liver transplantation and return to the workplace as productive citizens. Moreover, it has never been considered ethical for clinicians to refuse treatment to patients for diseases that are partly or wholly preventable.
As utterly annoying as the anti-vax and anti-mask people are, insisting that the disease that put them in the crowded ICU is a hoax perpetrated by known hoaxsters Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci
I do wish DUers would drop the notion that doctors and nurses are karma's agents of retribution and should refuse healthcare to people who don't mask up or get vaccinated.
If an idiot walks into a burning building, you still want them rushed to the local burn unit after they come out screaming "Maybe the fire isn't fake news!" This is about one of the core liberal values of building a society that safe and secure for all our people--yes, even for the gullible schmucks. Unlike the pro-lifers, we are in favor of saving human lives. As one libtard put it: all people are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Don't become what you despise. Just like we don't limit free speech to those you agree with, we don't devalue the lives and liberty of those who, for whatever stupid reasons, are devaluing their own lives.
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There'll be a test on this later
Republicans have always been suckers for a Cult of Personality. But this time it's different.
For decades it's been the Cult of Reagan. But as objectionable as his policies were, he was always a capable politician, able to cut a deal, able to serve a version of the national interest. His level of corruption was in the normal range personally, but he was shitty at policing his greedy underlings, and so his administration produced a large number of corruption indictments. The cultists ignored it, allowed it, and it just got worse.
They tried to turn Dubya into a cult. Even got that Dominionist chosen-by-God bullshit going. But he was a weak canvas to project their baloney onto. He was corrupt on a grander scale than Reagan. He actually started a war just to privatize the war industry and help his enablers to guzzle the griftings. But at least it made the country temporarily stronger (before the inevitable fan-hittings made the country weaker and more isolated). I mean, yes, he left our enemies stronger, our moral stance in the world muddied, our allies befuddled, and the global chaos he created still spreading. But at least they were discernably pro-American fuckups. Republican support for Bush 2.0 was a failure of judgment, but not outright betrayal to our country itself.
But The Donald is so easily detected as a hypocrite, so open about his corruption--literally stealing from vets out in the open, literally plundering the Republican party's funds for his personal gain, actually dissing our intel community while handing over intel and geopolitical advantages to the Russians who all-but-openly pushed for his election--they'd have to be braindead not to see through it. And yet they keep on conflating him with Jesus, keep on buying his demonstrably false claims about the election (not just provable lies, but downright idiotic lies), keep on giving money to him no matter how many times his rip-offs have been exposed.
There's 250 Republicans in Congress. Only two have the integrity to say enough is enough. They're just pathetic. They make me worry for this country's future in ways George W Dumbass and the Neocons never did.
Cheney Goes 'Straight To The Heart Of The Matter' On Case Against Trump
Cheney Goes ‘Straight To The Heart Of The Matter’ On The Case Against TrumpHG Wells offers some hope on the MAGA Movement. Also, congratulations to Daniel Rodriguez
“In the end the red weed succumbed almost as quickly as it had spread. A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it. Now, by the action of natural selection, all terrestrial plants have acquired a resisting power against bacterial diseases—they never succumb without a severe struggle, but the red weed rotted like a thing already dead. The fronds became bleached, and then shriveled and brittle. They broke off at the least touch, and the waters that had stimulated their early growth carried their last vestiges out to sea.”
H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/video-shows-alleged-insurrectionist-wondering-if-capitol-rioters-were-actually-just-stupid
Video Shows Alleged Insurrectionist Wondering If Capitol Rioters Were Actually Just Stupid
The first video released of an FBI interrogation of a Capitol riot defendant shows the man crying, wondering if he’s just stupid, and describing his use of a Taser-like weapon on a Capitol Police officer.
“Are we all that stupid that we thought we were going to go do this and save the country and it was all going to be fine after?” a tearful Daniel Rodriguez asked the two FBI agents interrogating him toward the end of a multi-hour interview.
“We really thought that. That’s so stupid, huh?”
Rodriguez was indicted, arrested and interrogated in March. He was indicted again this week alongside two other defendants, this time on charges of conspiracy, inflicting bodily injury on certain officers using a dangerous weapon and obstructing an official proceeding.
Congratulations, Daniel Rodriguez, you just became the smartest Republican in the world
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