American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

"People like Putin, and Steve Bannon for that matter, understand it's not necessary for people to believe disinformation. You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage."

Great America.

The Ruling Class' Pantheon of Lies.

Barack Obama doesn't want to prevent the flooding of the public square with raw sewage. He wants the exclusive ability to flood the public square with sewage and prevent its cleanup.

By Drew Allen.

April 25,2022.

Barack Obama recently took to the stage at Stanford University to lecture an audience on the perils of disinformation. But it was Obama himself who used the occasion to spread lies and misinformation.

This shouldn't come as any surprise. In 2013, PolitiFact awarded Obama its Lie of the Year award for repeatedly promising the American people that "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. " Obama made this false claim repeatedly as he promoted his signature piece of legislation: the "Affordable Care Act."

After its passage, millions of Americans were sent cancellation letters from their insurance companies.

Nonetheless, Obama, the decorated 2013 liar of the year, stood behind the podium at Stanford and admonished, "You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing, that citizens no longer know what to believe."

Obama was right, except that it's Democrats like himself who have flooded our country's public square with raw sewage. Just a few recent additions to the American ruling class' pantheon of lies include Trump-Russia collusion, Trump quid pro quo, Trump incited an insurrection, the vaccines prevent the contraction and spread of COVID-19, and the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation.

Notably, while Obama railed against the planting of "conspiracy theorizing," in his speech, he continued to peddle the debunked Democrat conspiracy theory of Trump-Russia collusion himself.

"No one in my administration was surprised that Russia was attempting to meddle in our election," Obama said in reference to the 2016 election.

Not only did the two-year, $32 million taxpayer-funded Mueller witch-hunt determine that there was no Trump-Russia collusion, but the ongoing Durham investigation has revealed that the Clinton campaign invented the conspiracy theory, funded its development, and colluded with countless Democrats, members of the intelligence community, and the media to flood the public square with that raw sewage.

Obama's concern is not that American citizens "no longer know what to believe," as he claimed, but rather that American citizens no longer believe pathological liars like himself, other Democrats, and the propagandist media, which Obama and the Democratic Party rely upon to spread their dirt and conspiracy theories.

Obama is deathly afraid that Americans may believe something that Obama and the Democrats don't want them to believe—such as the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

Sixteen percent of Biden voters would have voted differently had the media and Big Tech not suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

Interestingly enough, Obama took aim at these very tech companies, which censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, in his Stanford speech. "These companies need to have some other north star other than just making money and increasing market share," Obama said.

The "north star" to which Obama wants these tech companies to look is censorship. Yet Twitter, one of the companies at which Obama aimed, actually does value censorship over profit. Before reversing course on Monday, Twitter's board of directors vowed to take a "poison pill" rather than accept Elon Musk's $43 billion cash offer to buy the social media platform. Musk's offer valued Twitter's stock at $54.20 a share; a 38 percent premium to Twitter's stock value before Musk disclosed his 9 percent stake.

The fact that companies like Twitter are "making money" isn't what really upsets Obama, but rather the prospect of a free speech advocate like Musk—who has both the money and the willingness to use it in this way—purchasing a leftist, activist communications platform and neutralizing its use as a censorship tool of the ruling class.

Had Jeff Bezos, rather than Elon Musk, announced his intention to purchase Twitter, Obama would have been thrilled.

But Obama and other Democrats know their rapidly diminishing political power depends upon their control of media narratives. Now that billionaires like Musk and others are looking to interrupt their monopoly, Obama wants the government to regulate them.

The Left's outrage at Musk's attempt to free one Big Tech company (not even the biggest) from the Democrats' chains of censorship is really a manifestation of their growing frustration that any platform or individual be allowed to question, challenge, or expose their agenda.

While Obama attacked Big Tech in his Stanford speech, he was really attacking every American who dares question and confront the Left's lies—from Joe Rogan with his audience of millions to me, with a podcast audience of thousands.

"One of the biggest reasons for the weakening of democracy is the profound change that's taken place in how we communicate and consume information," Obama said.

What Obama meant was that one of the biggest reasons for the weakening of the Democratic Party has been the proliferation of free speech and alternative media sources.

Americans are no longer congregating in the Left's pantheon of lies. Instead, they are seeking refuge in the abundant pantheons of truth.

While new, heavily funded "mainstream" media services like CNN+ fail, alternative, right-wing podcasts with no funding like mine are flourishing.

Would-be totalitarians like Obama don't want to prevent the flooding of the public square with raw sewage. They want the exclusive ability to flood the public square with sewage and prevent its cleanup.

[ScatManDoo]

Continuing its leadership of the world's transition to electric vehicles, Norway registered a new record in electric car sales in March and is well on its way to achieving 100% electric car sales by 2025.

Leading the charge by a metaphorical mile in March was Tesla, where the Model why claimed 20% of the Norway market followed by the Model 3 which claimed 10%.

A total of 13,983 new battery-electric passenger vehicles in March, corresponding to a breathtakingly impressive 86.1% of all new passenger vehicles registered in the month. Including plug-in hybrid vehicles, the market saw a nearly 92% uptake of electrified transport.

According to numbers published by Norway's Road Traffic Information Council, a total of 16,238 new passenger vehicles were registered in March, a marginal increase on March of 2021.

But the most important numbers were the number of new zero-emission passenger vehicles which would appear to refer strictly to battery electric vehicles, considering that OFV singles out new rechargeable hybrid passenger cars as two separate classes of vehicle, rechargeable and non-rechargeable.

While there were only 1,387 of both types of hybrids, the number of zero-emission passenger cars registered in March reached 13,983.

Accounting for 86.1% of all new vehicles registered in March, new battery electric vehicles (BEVs) grew 62% over the same month only a year earlier.

Norway saw similarly stunning numbers in January, when BEVs accounted for 83.7% of all new cars registered that month, with a total of 6,659.

The first three months of 2022 have seen a total of 26,803 new BEVs, an increase of nearly 40% over the same quarter a year earlier.

Unsurprisingly, and following a nearly global trend, Tesla secured the largest share of new vehicles registered in March, with 5,002 models registered accounting for 30.8% of all new vehicles.

By model, the Tesla Model why saw a total of 3,305 new models registered, while 1,696 Tesla Model 3's were registered, accounting for 20.4% and 10.4% respectively.

Ev sales March 2022.

Source: OFV.

German automaker Volkswagen was second with 1,498, with its electric ID. 4 leading the way with 1,111 models registered. Third was Audi, with 1,069 models registered, with 667 Q4 e-tron's registered.

The fifth best-selling model in Norway was also an electric, with 591 Hyundai Ioniq 5's registered through March.

In fact, all of the top 10 vehicles were electric vehicles, further highlighting their dominance in Norway, with the 6-10th vehicles for March in Norway being the BMW iX, Polestar 2, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Audi e-tron, and Skoda Enyaq.

[EihTooms]

Our Lord and Savior is coming back in 2024 to save western civ! Again!

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bi...25/id/1067114/

70 Percent of Adults Don't Want Donald Trump to Run in 2024: Poll

https://www.newsweek.com/70-percent-...4-poll-1673588

Too bad. That Trump-JFK Jr ticket would have been hard to beat. Especially now that the Republican Party has provided cover for their candidates to turn tail, run and hide from debates so that JFK Jr "no show" would have been easier to explain.

[PVMonger]

Our Lord and Savior is coming back in 2024 to save western civ! Again!

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bi...25/id/1067114/

The only people who believe this fiction are morons. Like you and the rest of the rightwingnuts.

[ScatManDoo]

"People like Putin, and Steve Bannon for that matter, understand it's not necessary for people to believe disinformation. You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage."

[MarquisdeSade1]

I see you didn't provide even one link for this thing you claim I said so many times because you can't, there isn't one.

Uh, no, I didn't work at a university. I was a student at a university and still have friends from those days who were also merely students there. Those were the long time university "chums" I was referring to.

So you might have just broken a Personal Best record for the longest, most detailed and labor intensive reply based on 100% inaccurate, misunderstood non information on the forum.

Impressive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/o...-midterms.html

[MarquisdeSade1]

Let's see if we can work out a little compare and contrast exercise for you here:

GW Bush came into office during booming economic conditions and historic budget surpluses that he giddily proclaimed in his first full month in office that we didn't even need so he was going to give fat cats in the top marginal brackets a refund. Remember?

Good time to make a grand, self-serving political gesture to "get" bad bankers for past transgressions. BTW, those Enron prosecutions were a waste of time and money since the convictions were overturned by the Repub majority SCOTUS. But, what the hell, we had all that time and money in the world to waste thanks to that booming Clinton economic hand off to GW Bush anyway, right? Banks and bankers? Who needs them? Prosecute!

By stark contrast and comparison, what was happening in the GW Bush economy at the hand off to Obama? Ah, I'll bet even you know what the totally logical argument to follow would be for why Obama did not spend the next years chasing down and prosecuting banks and bankers when what the country needed more than revenge and a self-serving political gesture that would for sure take years, might not get even one conviction and had the same Repub SCOTUS waiting in the wings to overturn such things was to get our money back. And as soon as fucking possible. Followed by as many years of stability and certainty as every monetary, commerce and capitalist society and system needed to survive and thrive except even more so this time.

Our Lord and Savior is coming back in 2024 to save western civ! Again!

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bi...25/id/1067114/

[Villainy]

Science is not opinion but data. Do you have data showing masks work on airplanes or trains? Hell no.

I have that scientific data.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-ne...-covid-19.html

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...sars-cov2.html

And what do these sources tell us? Wearing masks is effective in protecting you against the virus. Omicron is more contagious and the air-borne particles are smaller and therefore more transmissible but even so, masks offer protection. If these studies reach these conclusions then masks must be far more effective in confined spaces.

I know you won't trust these sources Elvis. Afterall there isn't a podcaster or blogger among them.

[PVMonger]

Science is not opinion but data. Do you have data showing masks work on airplanes or trains? Hell no.

OMG. You control both houses and have the executive branch. Tell me who is in favor of high insulin prices. Propose allowing the repatriation of drugs from other countries. And then shame anyone against it.

Glenn Greenwald wrote what the Democratic scam is. Like with Build Back Better, the Dems pick one person to vote against an unpopular package and then blame him. Matt Taibbi wrote that if the Dems could get through the public option, lower drug prices, and like three other issues they would not lose. And then what happens? They always fail. GW Bush prosecuted the fat cats at Worldcom and Enron. Obama gave everyone a fucking pass. The fat cats own your fucking party no matter what solutions you propose. They will never come to fruition.

So only black lives matter. White, Asian, and Latin lives do not. Got it. Yeah, that is not racist. I think that is the end of it. I am going to do like Canada and Cali guy do and leave you alone. That is when you all tear into each other.

I'll turn the tables back on you. Do you have data showing masks don't work on airplanes, et cetera? Nope. And again, it appears that you are comfortable with someone with no medical training or public health training whatsoever determine public health policy. And I ask again, do you go to your mechanic for medical advice? To your doctor about tax issues? Only idiots do that. Idiots like the one-term, twice-impeached, fake-POTUS former guy and all of the morons that voted for him.

Actually, the Democrats do not control the Senate. The Senate is split 50/50. If you had enough IQ points to decorate a domino, you'd know that. Who is in favor of high insulin prices? Since only 12 Republicans (out of 209) voted for the House bill to cap the price of insulin, it appears that Republicans are against capping the price of insulin. Was there a Republican counterproposal? Nope. Just Matt "Sex before they're eight or else its too late" Gaetz suggesting that people lose weight.

And, once more, racist Republicans like you fail to understand that "Black lives matter" does not mean "Only black lives matter". The "only Black lives matter" retort is the standard idiot's response and you proved once again that you are one. As I said earlier, you and the rest of the rightwingnuts on this board are so closed minded that you will never understand. Period.

[EihTooms]

Science is not opinion but data. Do you have data showing masks work on airplanes or trains? Hell no.

OMG. You control both houses and have the executive branch. Tell me who is in favor of high insulin prices. Propose allowing the repatriation of drugs from other countries. And then shame anyone against it.

Glenn Greenwald wrote what the Democratic scam is. Like with Build Back Better, the Dems pick one person to vote against an unpopular package and then blame him. Matt Taibbi wrote that if the Dems could get through the public option, lower drug prices, and like three other issues they would not lose. And then what happens? They always fail. GW Bush prosecuted the fat cats at Worldcom and Enron. Obama gave everyone a fucking pass. The fat cats own your fucking party no matter what solutions you propose. They will never come to fruition.

So only black lives matter. White, Asian, and Latin lives do not. Got it. Yeah, that is not racist. I think that is the end of it. I am going to do like Canada and Cali guy do and leave you alone. That is when you all tear into each other.

Let's see if we can work out a little compare and contrast exercise for you here:

GW Bush came into office during booming economic conditions and historic budget surpluses that he giddily proclaimed in his first full month in office that we didn't even need so he was going to give fat cats in the top marginal brackets a refund. Remember?

Good time to make a grand, self-serving political gesture to "get" bad bankers for past transgressions. BTW, those Enron prosecutions were a waste of time and money since the convictions were overturned by the Repub majority SCOTUS. But, what the hell, we had all that time and money in the world to waste thanks to that booming Clinton economic hand off to GW Bush anyway, right? Banks and bankers? Who needs them? Prosecute!

By stark contrast and comparison, what was happening in the GW Bush economy at the hand off to Obama? Ah, I'll bet even you know what the totally logical argument to follow would be for why Obama did not spend the next years chasing down and prosecuting banks and bankers when what the country needed more than revenge and a self-serving political gesture that would for sure take years, might not get even one conviction and had the same Repub SCOTUS waiting in the wings to overturn such things was to get our money back. And as soon as fucking possible. Followed by as many years of stability and certainty as every monetary, commerce and capitalist society and system needed to survive and thrive except even more so this time.

More than grand political gestures that might not even pay off with confirmed convictions, chaos, uncertainty and revenge, we and the rest of the world's economies needed the bankers who knew more than anyone else on the planet how and why we got into that mess to get us out of it and pay us back for it, with interest. Hefty interest. Not temporarily stamping out license plates or pounding big rocks into little rocks somewhere.

Which is the far, far better immediate goal option that Obama chose. And so that is what he did and he even turned a healthy profit on the deal.

To question Obama's reasoning and results after the fact without factoring in the full context, conditions and unprecedented emergency requirements necessary at that precise time in history sounds exactly like the kind of stupid thing Greenwald, Taibbi and whatever other pro Repub numbskulls you got that from would do.

[EihTooms]

Nah, the real estate part is still true, and your profile screams that you are getting a state pension. Maybe the education part was off but that is on you. I "have university chums" is present tense like they are still at the university.

It is funny though how you just said I was wrong and did not tell me what you did. That is suspicious.

But here you are living in Thailand telling everyone what is best and how resources should be directed. LOL. If everyone did what you do, there would be few taxes to be collected.

I am getting no city, state or federal pension, never did. I am not even collecting Social Security yet. Other than getting some unemployment insurance checks during the Reagan, Bush1 and Bush2 high unemployment, massive lay-off and jobs destruction years and those Trump Economic Disaster Emergency Relief checks that most Americans had to receive due to his horrific economic decision results, I have never received any money from any government or that I didn't earn directly from the private sector jobs and work I performed. Actually, even the unemployment checks I got under typically crap Repub jobs creation and economic results administrations came to me thanks to contributions I made to the insurance program from earned income.

No, I started working at age 14 (I lied on my application. I think the minimum age to be hired was 15 1/2 or 16 back then), worked full time all through high school and university where I met my fellow university chums. It was mostly swing shift and graveyard shift factory and department store janitorial kind of work that a daytime student could get in the evenings or overnight in those days. I caught sleep here and there between classes or in the 20 free minutes I had during lunch breaks at the factories.

After graduating from the university I continued to work only private sector jobs, mostly in local, district, branch and regional sales management positions with solid Fortune 500 companies and voluntarily retired early from all that by 55 after I felt I had all my ducks lined up in a row well enough to dabble in a few other fun things in the USA and then comfortably retire where I had already judged from several extended vacation jaunts decades earlier would likely be a fine, fun, sexy and adventurous place to spend most of the second half or final third.

I was right. It has been a blast.

[ScatManDoo]

I see you didn't provide even one link for this thing you claim I said so many times because you can't, there isn't one.

Uh, no, I didn't work at a university. I was a student at a university and still have friends from those days who were also merely students there. Those were the long time university "chums" I was referring to.

So you might have just broken a Personal Best record for the longest, most detailed and labor intensive reply based on 100% inaccurate, misunderstood non information on the forum..

CaliGuy also has a great background on writing fiction based on his own confusion.

CaliGuy made several false claims & assertions of my education in San Diego.

When I have never attended nor taught school in that entire county.

These pubs are laugh-out-loud funny & stupid.

[Elvis 2008]

Not one responsible scientist says that. Of course you can find morons in the medical profession who say that but notice that I used the word "responsible".

Science is not opinion but data. Do you have data showing masks work on airplanes or trains? Hell no.

You said that the Republicans are not devoid of ideas and yet you failed once more to provide any evidence that Republican Congresspeople offered any counterproposals on voting rights, COVID Relief, capping the price of insulin or inflation.

OMG. You control both houses and have the executive branch. Tell me who is in favor of high insulin prices. Propose allowing the repatriation of drugs from other countries. And then shame anyone against it.

Glenn Greenwald wrote what the Democratic scam is. Like with Build Back Better, the Dems pick one person to vote against an unpopular package and then blame him. Matt Taibbi wrote that if the Dems could get through the public option, lower drug prices, and like three other issues they would not lose. And then what happens? They always fail. GW Bush prosecuted the fat cats at Worldcom and Enron. Obama gave everyone a fucking pass. The fat cats own your fucking party no matter what solutions you propose. They will never come to fruition.

You will never understand why "All lives matter", when used as a counter argument to "Black lives matter", is racist.

So only black lives matter. White, Asian, and Latin lives do not. Got it. Yeah, that is not racist. I think that is the end of it. I am going to do like Canada and Cali guy do and leave you alone. That is when you all tear into each other.

[Elvis 2008]

I see you didn't provide even one link for this thing you claim I said so many times because you can't, there isn't one.

Uh, no, I didn't work at a university. I was a student at a university and still have friends from those days who were also merely students there. Those were the long time university "chums" I was referring to.

So you might have just broken a Personal Best record for the longest, most detailed and labor intensive reply based on 100% inaccurate, misunderstood non information on the forum.

Impressive.

Nah, the real estate part is still true, and your profile screams that you are getting a state pension. Maybe the education part was off but that is on you. I "have university chums" is present tense like they are still at the university.

It is funny though how you just said I was wrong and did not tell me what you did. That is suspicious.

But here you are living in Thailand telling everyone what is best and how resources should be directed. LOL. If everyone did what you do, there would be few taxes to be collected.

[EihTooms]

This is right up there with "The Republican Party's Plan To Rescue America" tax increases.

Same as Reagan did at the Federal level, Repub governor DeSantis is about to increase taxes on Floridians in a big way. But then, he has that sucker Culture War issue to defend. LOL:

Florida taxpayers could face $1 billion Disney debt bomb after special district bill passes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/disn...ndroidappshare

The Florida legislature on Thursday cleared a bill that would dissolve Disneys special improvement district, effective June 2023.

If the special district is eliminated, Orange and Osceola counties would have to provide the local services currently provided by the special district.

Legislators and tax experts warn the bill creates an even larger potential problem for taxpayers in the form of bonds totaling more than $1 billion.