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Divorce rates down by 18% Wow ! (bigthink.com)
by marcus on 1 Oct 2018   22 comments, latest a year ago
"Glad the divorce rate in America is falling? Thank millennials. https://bigthink.com/sex-relat Cynical and dark spin: Maybe the millennials haven't accumulated enough assets yet to make divorce enticing ?

What Happened to the Political Center?
by marcus on 29 Jun 2020   61 comments, latest 2 years ago

What's wrong with this guys views ?
by marcus on 29 Jun 2020   57 comments, latest 2 years ago

Trump the Intimidator Fails Again (nytimes.com)
by marcus on 6 Jan 2020   11 comments, latest 2 years ago
yes, it's Krugman, so you Trump Cucks are probably going to want to ignore it. But he nails it in my opinion.https://www.nytimes.co International crises often lead, at least initially, to...

What happens when you think your stupidity is more valid than facts and science ? (bloomberg.com)
by marcus on 26 Jun 2020   27 comments, latest 2 years ago
A Horrifying U.S. Covid Curve Has a Simple Explanationhttps://www.bloombe

Fascism shmashism, what are those fear mongering libbies even talking about ? (cnn.com)
by marcus on 10 Jun 2020   9 comments, latest 2 years ago
It's as if they think Trump wants to be dictator or something. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10

Arizona hospitals bracing for crisis (tucson.com)
by marcus on 9 Jun 2020   21 comments, latest 2 years ago
Tuscon and Phoenix hospital ICU units at close to full capacity. You have to hand it to the perpetrators of this hoax. They are well connected to be able to...

Mattis blasts Trump for divisiveness and ‘making a mockery of our Constitution’ (stripes.com)
by marcus on 3 Jun 2020   19 comments, latest 2 years ago
https://www.stripes.com/news/u “It is a wholesome and unifying demand – one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of...

Twitter Had Been Drawing a Line for Months When Trump Crossed It (nytimes.com)
by marcus on 31 May 2020   14 comments, latest 2 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0 In 2018, two of the president’s tweets stood out to Twitter officials. In one, Mr. Trump discussed launching nuclear weapons at North Korea, which some employees believed violated company...

Virtual Graduation SNL
by marcus on 11 May 2020   Posted 2 years ago

Mourning in America
by marcus on 5 May 2020   32 comments, latest 2 years ago
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Is anyone else wondering how many red hat (actors) George Soros is going to pay to drink bleach or Lysol just to make Trump look bad ?
by marcus on 24 Apr 2020   11 comments, latest 2 years ago
Is anyone else wondering how many red hat (actors) or supposed red hats George Soros is going to pay to drink bleach or Lysol just to make Trump look bad...

This is the kind of smart discussion I need to hear more of
by marcus on 18 Apr 2020   56 comments, latest 2 years ago
Yes this is the same guy that many of the most strident advocates against what we're doing got some of their arguments. Turns out he has a much more complex,...

Putin’s Long War Against American Science (nytimes.com)
by marcus on 13 Apr 2020   11 comments, latest 2 years ago
Interesting article. Yeah I know, New York Times, NoBueno for many of you. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0 I especially found this part interesting. In 2012 Mr. Putin added the military to his informational...

What are the biggest errors in thinking about the Corona virus ?
by marcus on 2 Apr 2020   58 comments, latest 2 years ago
I saw a thread title that said. "Coronavirus toll could be up to 0.0003 of the US population!"But that was based on a low end of estimates, based on what...

Why ? Why would the EPA declare this ? (thehill.com)
by marcus on 27 Mar 2020   1 comment, latest 2 years ago
I don't get it. Let companies that skirt rules because of CV argue that in court or whatever, but why declare open season on pollution ? This makes no sense....

I was wondering about the stupid "Chinese Virus" discussion on Patrick.net (nytimes.com)
by marcus on 20 Mar 2020   52 comments, latest 2 years ago
So stupid. "Why ?" Why put a countries name on it, when we had already settled on names for it. Why is this suddenly important to anyone ? I just...

What We Can Learn From Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong About Handling Coronavirus (time.com)
by marcus on 14 Mar 2020   12 comments, latest 2 years ago
What We Can Learn From Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong About Handling Coronavirushttps://time.com/58 “To be honest, as a public health professional, I am deeply concerned about the U.S.,” says Lim,...

Does changing the inputs change the outputs ? (time.com)
by marcus on 15 Mar 2020   2 comments, latest 2 years ago
:Does changing the inputs change the outputs ? Why yes, yes it does. https://time.com/5801726/coron Even if the coronavirus was better understood, the most complex simulations in the world would still...

What really led to the decrease in working class wages ?
by marcus on 7 Mar 2020   4 comments, latest 2 years ago
I would rank the factors as follows. 1) Technology2) Women joining the workforce en masse 3) Globalization (in large part not just what we make for our own consumption -...

TRUMP'S GOLFING HAS COST TAXPAYERS $102 MILLION (newsweek.com)
by marcus on 22 May 2019   54 comments, latest 2 years ago
TRUMP'S GOLFING HAS COST TAXPAYERS $102 MILLION, JUST $12.7 MILLION BEHIND OBAMA'S TRAVEL DURING ENTIRE PRESIDENCY: REPORTThat's more than twice the profit to the government that the Mueller investigation yielded....

more Trump cartoons
by marcus on 19 Feb 2017   956 comments, latest 2 years ago

At work today I saw a post saying one of the stupidest things I've ever heard on Patrick.net
by marcus on 24 Feb 2020   13 comments, latest 2 years ago
So the person probably has me on ignore, or possibly I have them on ignore, but I briefly looked at Patrick.net at lunch time and saw a post saying that...

Wtf ? Are the crazy left wingers trying to make rational democrats give up on them ? (slate.com)
by marcus on 23 Feb 2020   37 comments, latest 2 years ago
I was almost ready to suppoirt Bernie until these assholes are embarrqassing me with their shameless playing of the victim card over NOTHING !What's wrong with these SJW idiots ?...

Elizabeth Warren is apparently campaigning for Bloomberg. Does she know it ?
by marcus on 19 Feb 2020   23 comments, latest 2 years ago
Warren: "I'd like to talk about who we're running against. A billionaire who calls women fat broads and hosed faced lesbians. And no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump, I'm...

I know most Trump Cucks aren't wondering what honesty or integrity look like. But here it is anyway
by marcus on 7 Feb 2020   30 comments, latest 2 years ago
:Smart man. Chooses not to be with the scumbags who lie to themselves on a minute by minute basis. Good on you Mitt !

Now that you think you know what cultural marxism is, why not learn what "situational ethics" means.
by marcus on 9 Jan 2020   Posted 2 years ago
:Have republicans lost all their principles ? Are they nothing more than a cult of personality now ? (this is from early 2019)

"This lady exposes America to the whole world" (reddit.com)
by marcus on 9 Jan 2020   3 comments, latest 2 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Publi

Why Is Trump a Tariff Man? (nytimes.com)
by marcus on 5 Dec 2019   70 comments, latest 2 years ago
Why Is Trump a Tariff Man?Good read for those with an open mind. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/1 The truth is that even economists who opposed Trump’s tax cuts and tariffs are surprised by...

In the Age of AI (full film) | FRONTLINE
by marcus on 8 Dec 2019   Posted 2 years ago
An interesting and frightening look at AI. You Sinophiles will definitely want to check it out.

From the President Who Brought You the War on Christmas, It's: The War on Thanksgiving! (esquire.com)
by marcus on 27 Nov 2019   14 comments, latest 2 years ago
WE all know that thanks to Trump the loser libtards totally lost their war on Christmas. We are all free once again to say Merry Christmas, just like back when...

If Trump Were Anyone Else … (nytimes.com)
by marcus on 17 Nov 2019   6 comments, latest 2 years ago
As the impeachment process unfolds, President Trump’s defenders will throw up dust clouds of complexity. But as the first day of open hearings suggested, it’s simple. Forget about Ukraine and...

Pesky Facts - You can deny them, but it only makes you seem dishonest and cognitively challenged (rollingstone.com)
by marcus on 7 Nov 2019   4 comments, latest 3 years ago
The Guy Trump Cited as Proof There Wasn’t a Quid Pro Quo Just Said There Was a Quid Pro Quohttps://www.rollingstone.co I don't know, is it right to call it throwing...

Trump is such a class act - here is is flipping off female astronauts (c-span.org)
by marcus on 19 Oct 2019   71 comments, latest 3 years ago
https://www.c-span.org/video/?

Hey Patrick - since it's impossible to "lurk" anymore, don't you need
by marcus on 7 Oct 2019   7 comments, latest 3 years ago
to turn off the function that says how many people are supposedly lurking ?

Trump Insists Sharpie-Doctored Map Shows Alabama Was in Hurricane Dorian’s Path (nymag.com)
by marcus on 5 Sep 2019   24 comments, latest 3 years ago
Weirdhttp://nymag.com/intellig

A well written look at Dylan Roof and his heinous murders (gq.com)
by marcus on 5 Aug 2019   3 comments, latest 3 years ago
https://www.gq.com/story/dylan This excerpt is a theory shared with the author by the man who had been principal of Dylan Roofs elementary school. “To understand Dylann, you need to read The...

If Donald Trump's Voice was Sassy
by marcus on 4 Jul 2019   3 comments, latest 3 years ago

Something we can agree on: Pushing Back on Grievance Studies with Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
by marcus on 27 May 2019   3 comments, latest 3 years ago

Over 720 former prosecutors say Trump would be indicted if he weren't president (axios.com)
by marcus on 7 May 2019   66 comments, latest 3 years ago
https://www.axios.com/trump-ob You guys will be burying this story quickly. I get that you don't want to acknowledge it, you want everyone to not pay attention to it. And surprisingly you're...