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edhopper's JournalBigfoot, new doc on Paterson film
I see a lot of posts on Facebook about a new documentary about the famous Paterson film with evidence it was staged. This was shown to be a hoax a number of years ago. It's remarkable how many pets people are chiming in to say the film is real and anything that debunks it is a lie.
This is how Trump gets elected
Are the Dems going to fillabuster the SAVE?
To require 60 votes for cloture?
or are we fucked?
Because other countries won't frivolously
put their military personnel at risk because of a petulant man child starting a war as a distraction.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/trump-demands-allies-secure-strait-of-hormuz-oil-iran.html
Dear American voter, maybe if you gave the Democrats power in Congress
you wouldn't be so disappointed (as various polls are showing) and they would be doing something.
But in you ignorance and prejudice, you not only made Trump President (which you now regret), you voted for him to have no checks on his power.
Because far too many of you don't have the slightest idea how Government works or what the Parties stand for.
I have little faith you will ever learn.
Job growth and unemployment doesn't add up.
In Biden's last year, 2024, about a million and half jobs were added to the economy. The Unemployment rate was about 4%. In Trumps first year, a paltry 180.000 jobs were created.(That is total for the year!) How is the unemployment rate only at 4.4%?
Where are all the people who would be looking for the new jobs if the economy wasn't comatose.
Trump's low but not low enough approval numbers.
Right now they remain in the low 40%s and disapprove in the upper 50%s (mostly strongly disapprove).
The question is why aren't they lower.
I think there are three groups.
True MAGA who love his fascist regime and don't care or love the harm he does.
People who see what he is doing and ignore it because it doesn't affect them. As long as they are doing well, fuck everyone else.
People who are willfully ignorant of what this monster is doing but voted for him.
Not sure of break down. But it's probably one of the three.
So Trump says he didn't know Noem was waisting $200 million
In tax payers money.
First, he's lying, we know he's lying.
Second, if we take his word for it, he is an incompetent idiot who doesn't know what his own administration is doing.
Corrupt or incompetent, which is it Donny? (Yeah, it's both)
And why don't the Dem leadership say this?
Voting against funding is supporting the troops
This military action (war) should not be happening. period full stop. Not funding it will force Trump and Pentagon Pete to pull back and not put our armed forces in jeopardy. A vote against funding is the patriotic thing to do. A vote for it (under the wrongful guise of support our troops) is a vote for facisim.
All of our Democratic Representatives should understand this, All of them should say so.
Little Marco is just an idiot
His excuse for this being a defensive operation is if we attacked them, they would fight back. Therefore we had to hit them first.
It's mind numbingly stupid. Why does the Press take those moron seriously.
Rick Steves on Iran: "It's just good style to get to know people before you bomb them."
That’s what I said 18 years ago when people asked me, “Why are you producing this TV show?” It was 2008, and President Bush was threatening to go to war with Iran. So, I did the best thing I could to bolster peace — I produced a public television special designed to humanize and better understand the people of Iran.
Well, it’s 2026 now, and the USA under Trump has stepped into a void. What our country just did in Iran is like someone blowing up Mar-a-Lago to kill our leader…or blowing up the Kremlin to kill Russia’s. Or the equivalent in Quebec City, Havana, Taipei, or Sacramento. Regardless of how much you hated Khamenei, we’ve entered a new frontier in a world where long-established norms are crumbling. And who’s gone rogue? Pick up a flag and look in the mirror.
Sure, there are people dancing in the streets in Iran — just as there would be if our president ended up dead under a pile of rubble, too. But Americans who are gleeful today don’t really understand Iran any more than those who were fixated on (or titillated by) Ted Koppel’s 444 days of the Iran hostage crisis 45 years ago.
The world’s a messy place. But that’s no excuse. As an American taxpayer, I believe that every US bomb that falls and every bullet that flies has my name on it. In the last year, our president (who won votes by promising to keep America out of wars and is now famously agitating for a Nobel Peace Prize) has dropped bombs on seven foreign countries — and each of those bombs has your name on it, too…including the one that just recklessly decapitated a nation of 90 million people in a war-torn corner of our world.
I want freedom for the Iranian people as much as anyone. And I know that, with ICE-like forces, their government has killed thousands of protesters…thousands of Renée Goods and Alex Prettis. But I also know that, sometimes, patience and stability are preferable to saber-rattling, bombast, and chaos.
If you don’t think you understand Iran (or even if you do), and you would like to gain some context for its current misery, this show is for you. Rather than debate the issues of the day, it was designed to help you simply appreciate the rich culture and endearing humanity of this long-suffering nation. I doubt you’ll be traveling to Iran anytime soon. So, let this be your opportunity to join me on a vicarious trip there and to get to know and better understand a people that, since that 2008 trip, have held a special place in my heart.
Rick Steves in Iran
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