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Patrick says

Given that the federal government is already a Leviathan of agencies for conducting propaganda, influence, and surveillance operations, one wonders why it is necessary to create new offices for these activities.

These legacy agencies are for deep state propaganda. The new offices are for Dem Party propaganda.

LOL, added that to my files. The lady with the secret birth year.

clambo says

I hate Biden, Democrats, liberals, and their ilk, but I want Ukraine to kick Putin's ass. Fuck Russia.

clambo says

I hate Biden, Democrats, liberals, and their ilk, but I want Ukraine to kick Putin's ass. Fuck Russia.

Will you settle for several 100 thousand Ukrainians dead, Ukraine shattered because about 10 million emigrated likely permanently, which will be wholly owned by foreign actors because whatever is left of Ukraine is deeply in debt for a war that they could never win?

Because that's what you're going to get, after all wishes aren't fishes.

If you want to "kick Putin's ass", why don't you advocate war with Russia? Sure, it might lead to a nuclear holocaust and the end of our civilization, but what does that matter, as long as Putin's ass is kicked?

All you're doing is supporting a money laundering operation where money is being stolen, AGAIN, from taxpayers and being put into the pockets of a bunch of sociopaths. They knew there was no chance of Ukraine winning. Remember that bullshit about how Russia was about to "break up"?

Putin just won re-election, he got about 85% of the vote. You know who the #2 place was reserved to? Nikolay Kharitonov - from the communist party. They are less communist than we are at this point.

The West has been preparing for this war since NATO was organized; Putin finally started it.

Ukraine has corruption, how shocking.

The Pentagon budget is gigantic so let the Department of Defense pay for some equipment to waste more sorry Russians.

Putin fucked up; his excuse for the invasion was NATO expansion. He convinced a couple more countries to join NATO. Good job, Vlad.

clambo says

The West has been preparing for this war since NATO was organized; Putin finally started it.

Ukraine has corruption, how shocking.

The Pentagon budget is gigantic so let the Department of Defense pay for some equipment to waste more sorry Russians.

Putin fucked up; his excuse for the invasion was NATO expansion. He convinced a couple more countries to join NATO. Good job, Vlad.

Except NATO was caught completely and utterly unprepared for any war, much less the biggest one since WW2. Pukin knew it and expected everybody to fold and Bidet&Co were ready to deliver, but Ukies flat-out refused just like their SOF refused to leave their citizens in Afghanistan like the rest of coalition did). Now the low-IQ ruler of the FAS sufferers is bogged down in a textbook definition of quagmire while Europe is slooooooooowly waking up....

clambo says

Putin fucked up; his excuse for the invasion was NATO expansion. He convinced a couple more countries to join NATO. Good job, Vlad.

His stated purpose was national survival (stop neocon NWO encroachment) and kill Nazis.

RWSGFY says

Putin fucked up; his excuse for the invasion was NATO expansion. He convinced a couple more countries to join NATO. Good job, Vlad.

Sweden joining NATO is a nuisance for Russia while Ukraine joining NATO is a national threat.

RWSGFY says

Bidet&Co were ready to deliver, but Ukies flat-out refused

You are wrong about this.

Zelenskyy was elected PRECISELY because he promised to implement the Minsk Accords and end the civil war between the East and West, which is what got him elected.

But in true Neocon fashion, because he's just a cutout for them, he did the exact opposite.

The US and the British have PREVENT resolution to this stupid war before it began and does so now. So, Russia is going to wipe out Ukraine. Ukraine has no future. All their young people, are gone.

Oh, and here's a fun fact, Zelenskyy didn't even speak Ukrainian when he was elected by the way, only Russian.

Clearly, the Middle Eastern countries weren't using enough MIC Guns 'n Butter. Time to Pivot to a Eurasian Land War!! Biden and Congress were ordered to give the Ukies money to spend on War Goods. It's all just a circle of cash to big corps, with plenty of extra money for laundering and bribes to the second most corrupt Eurasian country after Russia. Most money goes right back to USA-based MIC companies, with spillover spending for Euro MIC corps, and useful idiots. We begin running outta Ammo, so Congress has to print mo monay to replace stockpiles (remember the news articles a few months ago?) Missiles and Ammo were getting near end-of-life anyway, right? Gotta use that ordnance on the battlefield!! Russia and Ukraine can conscript Ethnics and other "undesirables" for the front lines as bullet soakers. Everyone wins! Oh, except American taxpayers, of course.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gratifying-wednesday-march-20-2024

Nevermind the Ides, whatever they are, Beware the Bad Ideas of March. NBC-4 Washington ran a gloomy story yesterday headlined, “Can the government work with social media companies to combat disinformation? Supreme Court to decide.” On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most important civil rights case in our lifetimes, Missouri v. Biden, and the judges' questions telegraphed bad news for free speech.

It used to be conventional wisdom that Justices’ questions in oral argument do not predict how they will rule. But in the post-pandemic era, nobody seems to think that anymore, and maybe for good reasons. While I remain stubbornly optimistic, Monday’s hearing was about as encouraging as a freezing-cold fried-cheese appetizer. Gnawing dejectedly on a chilly cheese stick, you realize you probably should have listened to those bad Yelp reviews.

Anyway, the Justices’ questions to the lawyers — especially the squishy center-right justices’ questions — stank of elite superiority and arrogant paternalism. Being themselves a part of government, the Justices seem to think that “government knows best,” especially in emergencies.

In spite of all the manifest evidence to the contrary.

In other words, all but the three reliably conservative Justices asked questions suggesting they would rather trust the Nation’s future to CISA’s 32-year-old “Disinformation Expert” — with zero medical training — over accomplished, recognized medical professionals who made epidemiology their lives’ work, like Martin Kulldorf (at the time, Harvard), Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford), and Sunetra Gupta (Oxford).

What I’m wondering is, even if Kulldorf, Bhattacharya, and Gupta did represent a minority view among scientists, who is Nina Jankowicz to decide which scientists are “spreading misinformation” and should be suppressed?

That’s not even how science works.

Specifically, several Justices pressed the States’ lawyers to explain: why is it so bad for government officials to just pick up the phone and call a social media company to discuss a potentially problematic post? Three of the Justices even referred to such calls as “common interactions.” The liberal Justices were even worse, signaling they expect the government to paternalistically protect citizens from encountering misinformation.

I wonder where the liberal Justices think all these unelected but wise government bureaucrats come from? Eggs maybe? Outer space? They don’t seem to understand we are all citizens. Even bureaucrats. Bureaucrats are just citizens who applied for a job with the federal government. Being a federal bureaucrat does not imply having any better knowledge or wisdom than any other citizen does.

Elected officials are even worse. As Exhibit A, watch smug Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Ca.), explain recently that the best way to combat disinformation is for people to watch MSNBC. I did not make that up:

It’s too early to panic over the questions. The Justice’s questions might not represent where the final decision is headed. And at this point the Justices are only deciding the preliminary injunction issue; the case itself will proceed to trial either way. Things might look a lot different after the evidence is presented. And, if the Court finds no Constitutional problem for government to lay its grotesque, oversized thumb on social media’s scales, then Congress will just have to outlaw that practice.

Ted can watch MSNBC all he wants. I hope he marries it and they live happily ever after. And good luck to them both. Just don’t make me watch that fake news, misinformation super-spreading nonsense.

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https://x.com/JerylBier/status/1783557644252242303

Neither NATO nor "nazis" in Ukraine were ever a threat to Russia; that's a pretext but some people evidently fall for it anyway.

NATO was perfectly content to buy energy from Russia, not invade it.

clambo says

NATO was perfectly content to buy energy from Russia, not invade it.

NATO should not even exist, as it should have been disbanded when the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact collapsed. Instead, NATO steadily pushed east absorbing former Warsaw Pact counties and even former Soviet republics. When that was not enough prodding, the US fostered a regime change in Ukraine and then Ukraine changed its constitution to allow it to join NATO. That was seem by Russia as an existential threat as both France and Germany have invaded Russia through Ukraine and Russia did not want the Black Sea to be a NATO lake. If that had not been enough to goad Russia, I am sure the Biden et al would have antagonized further, like have Japan take back Sakhalin or get Georgia to allow a NATO naval base at Batumi. The goal was to destroy Russia by provoking them into a fight. Why did the US blow up the Nordstream pipeline?

HeadSet says

NATO should not even exist, as it should have been disbanded when the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact collapsed.

^^^ This

Nina News!

She's panicking. Maybe she'll sing a musical about losing her USAID based funding.