June 17, 2023

Cons use "fairness" as their cover for denial and destruction

For Cons it is more important to block meals to undeserved people than give free meals to those needing them. The idea is that taxpayers demand fairness and don't want (and shouldn't have to, the story goes) pay for people who don't need it.

But that is a cover for the actual operation because they know that helping disadvantaged children levels the playing field. It is a convenient (for the Cons) case of "the perfect is the enemy of the good". By demanding perfect distribution they get to deny basic distribution.

Despite all protestations about wanting level playing fields, all attempts at levelling opportunities are blocked in order to protect rich families from having to compete on a level playing field.

In particular, Cons know that hurting young children imposes a lifetime of disadvantage to them and advantage to the Cons families.

Why? Because many whites can't compete. End of story.

June 16, 2023

Of course we don't. You are posting on a public discussion forum

We see it's important because we see you posting it often.

You tell me that my count is not correct when you don't know what it is counting. But you don't hold double standards, despite the appearance. That would be unethical and you have good ethics.

You are posting frequently your secret count on a public forum as if you believe it is important to the public forum. Why else post on a public discussion forum? You aren't posting for your own ego. That would be selfish and you are mindful of community.

You don't expect us to guess what your private count is. You are intelligent so you don't expect us to be able to guess. Because you are knowledgeable and know that there are many variations of counts surrounding different public events.

For example, it is 876 days since Biden was inaugurated. 28 months, 26 days. Which is really 29 months. But somebody could call it 28 months, if they were rounding it off by truncation.

But that would be a celebration. And being a cheerful sort, you would gladly state that celebration on a public forum.

A Republican would say the 28 months represents the time the usurper Biden is occupying the Oval Office that is rightly Trump's. But you are not a Republican. You might be a republian or a mushroom, whatever those are. But you are not a Republican.

It is 891 days since the attempted insurrection. 29 months, 10 days. That's 29 months and so that's not it.

It is 862 days since Biden stopped some arms sales to Saudi Arabia. 28 months 12 days. Perhaps you have family that was killed by Houti rebels.

It's something negative that happened between January 16th, and Feb. 16th 2021. But not personal to you, because you are not selfish.

So it's not ego.
It's not stupidity.
It's not selfishness.
It's not double standards.
It's not celebrating Joe Biden.
It's not a Republican complaint.
It's not lack of awareness of public events.
It's not marking the attempted insurrection.
It's not a republican or republian code signalling to mushrooms.

It could be arms sales ban.

Do you have any idea of why you are using a public forum? I believe you do because you are intelligent. Care to share in the space you've been using?

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January 15
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party elects Thongloun Sisoulith as its new General Secretary, replacing retiring chief Bounnhang Vorachith. Sisoulith is elected for a five-year term as top leader in Laos.[12]
COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 2 million.[13]
January 20 – Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are inaugurated as the 46th and 49th President and Vice President of the United States. Harris becomes the first Black, South Asian and female Vice President.
January 22 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first legally binding international agreement comprehensively to prohibit nuclear weapons, comes into effect.[14]
January 24 – 2021 Portuguese presidential election: Incumbent president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is reelected.[15]
January 26 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeds 100 million worldwide.[16]
January 27 – A near-total ban on abortion comes into effect in Poland.[17]
January 29 – COVID-19 pandemic: The European Union invokes Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol following a row over COVID-19 vaccine supplies before reversing the decision.[18]
January 31 – Nguyễn Phú Trọng is re-elected for a third five-year term as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.[19]

February
February 1

A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule leading to widespread demonstrations across the country.[20][21][22]
Kosovo officially establishes diplomatic ties with Israel and announces plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem.[23]
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 100 million.[24][25]

February 4 – US President Joe Biden announces that the United States will cease providing weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for use in the Yemeni Civil War.[26]
February 9

COVID-19 pandemic: A joint WHO–China investigation into the source of the outbreak concludes. Investigators deem a Wuhan laboratory leak to be "extremely unlikely", with a "natural reservoir" in bats being a more likely origin.[27]
The UAE's uncrewed Hope spacecraft becomes the first Arabian mission successfully to enter orbit around Mars.[28]

February 13–17 – A major winter storm kills at least 136 people and causes over 9.9 million power outages in the U.S.[29]

June 15, 2023

Any person's death diminishes me, though it is difficult sometimes to muster any care

... for some people; they have done all the diminishing in their lifetime, before they die. They have hit rock bottom and will lie there.

-- John Dunne, 1572-1631

June 15, 2023

Also failure of childhood education. Kids are natural scientists until it is beaten out of them

Observe two year old toddlers testing everything: prodding, poking, dropping, bashing, pushing, pulling, stretching. Tasting everything.

Kids get logic if you tell them that it is a super-power that they can acquire.

As to ego, your point is spot on. Real scientists (not used ironically) try to disprove their own theories. "Hey Jane, look over this please. I've tried angle A and perspective B and attack C and I haven't found a flaw yet. See if you can find one."

But the poorly educated and the less intelligent (lower 50% by whatever reasonable measure) tend to look for evidence that supports their position and they think that is what scientists do.

They tend to otherize themselves and reject attempts to reach out to them. Sealing off contradictory information is part of the psychology of over-confidence in knowledge. Part of this is the cumulative effect of having been found wrong more times than their smarter peers; so a kind of coping mechanism: childhood peers can be brutal.


All the same, there is a large portion of the "poorly educated and less intelligent" who rank in the top quartile of wisdom. The ones who work hard all their lives, raise their children to have better lives than their own, and who die having left the world better for their existence. They may not as often know "why" things are the way they are but they often understand better the "what" and the "how" of the way things are.

June 15, 2023

(3) is the EASIEST to prove. Either they gave it back when asked or not

(3) is the easy out, the dodge. But then you don't get to keep the documents.


For what ever reason, and it is one we must search for, it was extremely important to tRump to keep the documents. So important he was willing to go through a lot for them. He may have narcissistically believed he was invulnerable, but surely after multiple inquiries and lawyers getting involved, even tRump is intelligent enough to have known it was going to lead to a huge amount of bother even if he thought he would ultimately escape in multiple ways.

Why was it so important to him to hold onto nuclear secrets? It did not touch any of his politics or his grievances.

The only answer I can think of is extremely disturbing and leads to another question: did he succeed in his goal.

June 14, 2023

Grooming for crime. Managers of crime farm teams

By enabling the criminal tRump and defending him, RepubliCons are grooming kids for white collar crime.

When laws are enforced, order is upheld. Why have the April NY indictments and the Miami indictments not created riots like the Jan 6 insurrection riot? Because the laws have been enforced over J6. Over a thousand arrested and more than half a thousand convicted.

Politicians and leaders of any kind who excuse or minimize or deny tRump's crimes are groomers for crime. Instead of being true leaders and truly against crime they grow it and propagate it. When kids say things like Senator Cruz says there is no crime, they are also thinking, hey if I get in cool with powerful people, I can get away with a lot of shit.

Managers of white collar crime farm teams. The Texas team of Paxton and Abbott. Florida. Enron. Fake charities. Fake "universities".

June 14, 2023

They should be answered by laws and where needed by Constitutional Amendment

1. No President, current or former, shall receive a pardon nor issue a pardon to a President current or former. Presidents and former Presidents are not eligible to receive any pardon.

2. No pardon in the US of A shall pardon any crime committed after the moment of issuance or ongoing at the moment of issuance, even if initiated before the moment of issuance.

3. { no opinion }

4. No pardon in the US of A can be sold or exchanged for valuable considerations or material or virtual goods. The penalty for doing so shall be one year in medium or higher security prison for each year served as President (or in other elected office) with no parole, only removal to a level lower security for certifiable chronic poor health.

5. { no opinion }

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Adding

6. Presidents can't be indicted during their first or only term, but all statutes of limitations are paused while the President is serving. Presidents may be indicted at any time following their first or only term. Evidence may be collected and recorded during their first or only term, even if an indictment is delayed or later declined.

June 11, 2023

She could torpedo the case, but ...

Slate is very worried. There is much that Cannon can do, but Smith has a lot of tools. It would not surprise me if Smith moves to reassign a judge. I thought there was no appeal if a case is "dismissed with prejudice", but Slate seems to think even that can be appealed. If Cannon makes a false move, she can be countered, but it might have to wait for the trial to finish, according to Slate.

And all of that is dependent on her being the judge. She is just in for the preliminaries, it seems, and the court itself could reassign her.

{emphasis added}


Click on this link for the scary article, but then remember that:

1) She might be automatically assigned out of the case after the preliminaries or the court administration might take it on themselves to reassign her. I don't know the machinations of that courthouse.

2) Smith could request reassignment and have a good case for reassignment.

3) She is constrained if she wants a career. She is now on record for an egregious set of decisions for the defendant in the other case, and would torpedo herself if she over-reaches again like that.

4) Smith could perhaps if needed relaunch the whole case in D.C. as a classified documents case and fight the whole "I declassified it in my mind" nonsense.

5) Smith has other cases. Nauta is under pressure and may turn to save his own skin because his indictment is apparently even more open-shut than tRump's. Bedminster is heating up and Ivanka's ashes feel a breeze though buried in a giant heavy coffin. And the big case about insurrection / overthrow of election is advancing in the background.

June 9, 2023

Another Conman Bites the Dust. . . . nt

June 9, 2023

Iron fist in velvet glove. . . . nt