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Can totally sympathize with this worldview but coming into this forum to do it isn't exactly the right way to screen out the bad things. Some do need to share the insanity. I would suggest you no longer share thoughts about the bad things going on in government from your public persona. Anonymize and save your own ass.

The African Americans who voted for Trump must be really proud this morning.

The US Air Force is forbidding its professional education system from teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen!

I think this is mostly how i feel. Still, have heart. Its going to be hard to remember what being good to your fellow man and contributing to the general welfare means after these thugs are finished with this country: if they ever are.

The 2024 team movie is out on youtube. First, Its odd having to show Javier Baez in our highlight movie. I watched the first 10 minutes of it and it was nowhere near as good as the .2% video someone made. I'll keep watching but it was off somehow. I get that its winter and its hard to be as stoked for baseball and what happened last year. That playoff run was special. Maybe its me.

One scenario: threat came from a kid's school email account. Perhaps it was very specific and they wanted to impress upon him and make show of doing so. Chicago Schools probably did the right thing by telling the Federals to pound sand until they actually make a respectful approach to the natives where they tell the leadership what and why they need to investigate. Maybe another scenario: Kid is being spoofed by other kids. An 11-year old is old enough to kill someone but he lacks proximity and resources to actually carry it out. If this kid were in Washington, DC or Mar-A-Lago areas and his father was a collector of sniper rifles who had a track record of leaving them out around the house....maybe.

No idea. I think its possible that the new leadership of USSS might have been over-exuberantly pushing the "investigate all the threats" stuff. You would otherwise not think an 11-year old at a school being being public enemy #1. As you know...you were alive in the United States...we had a period after 9/11 where there was no threshold too low to investigate because everyone was jittery. We had this phrase that you may have heard "out of an abundance of caution" which sounds great to a politician because who can argue against being diligent? But it led to insane ass-hattery of investigating cranks and attention-seekers and pranksters. Not every threat is equal. Eventually, as the number of people on terrorist watch lists and the no-fly list (that's a much smaller number) approached the populations of small cities and maybe even some small countries and people started to realize that water supplies in rural Tennessee were not (stealing from Nate Bargatze's standup act) "next" after crashing airliners into the World Trade Center people started to use more rationality to evaluating threats. USSS always had a different criteria though. They had to do some due diligence for almost every threat. They had to say...yeah we looked into it to some extent. USSS also has a psychological framework where they investigate "superfans" who show up all the events to be on rope-lines, because at some point there is a jilted lover aspect to this. Think Monica Lewinsky showing up at that ropeline because she was a young woman in a sexual relationship with a powerful man who was suddenly cut off from that. Well, imagine now that there is a person out there who just thinks all that stuff even if it isn't real. There is this public figure, why don't they see we would be best friends if we just got to hang out at Red Lobster together. I worked with these folks for about 10 years and we stole some horses and had some times and there are funny stories. A couple of them were from New Jersey even if the one in MY superfan's version of events isn't exactly what he's spun into his narrative.

They want us to be renters.

and when I say "we" i mean the World.

I cannot stress how far this musical feels from the Trump Administration round 2. If you are broken from all this. I recommend you watch it and feel a little better. This group of asshat haters in this administration is so far from the post-9/11 culture we had.

Death threats are what they care about. Anti-Trump "content" is not at all their purview. We still have SOME professionals in law enforcement.

Watching in real time as colleagues are seeing the changes. The most alerting aspect is the encouragement to rat out your coworkers. The Heritage Foundation guys (and of course they are all guys) paid attention to the Communists and the Fascists and to Orwell. My concern for my less self aware coworkers is when the political class c (commissars) find their way into the agencies.

It should definitely be in the mix. Germany for one would be happier if they had kept their plants going. But those politicians that Putin bribed stayed bribed.

Maybe we can keep this thread going Kyle Cheney ‪@kyledcheney.bsky.social‬ Follow JUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were *commuted* from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.

Delusional

Noting the above. I never claimed anything about a secret service agent from New Jersey. This reference is to an informal discussion with a person i know who had heard scuttlebutt from Secret Service people. I also know USSS people from previous jobs. I usually ignore this poster but having seen my name in the mud i choose to at least spray a little water on the mess.

Its not like anyone was warned what would happen if we removed the doddering but still moderate and certainly better than replacement level Dem president with a random noise generating corruption factory that enabled the worst, most antiscientific impulses of the ignorami of the fringe of the Right Wing, fueled by the unassailable media positioning of the kleptocrats. Ya gonna get ignorance and theocracy trying to slip stream behind the kleptocrats and vice versa.

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G2, your note about Lysenkoism... [chefs kiss]

So the last two posts are related. The first shows that sanctions have impact on bad actors even if they take time. The second shows that the cost of the "Iron Curtain" was passed to Hungary to pay for because of the sluggishness of the Soviet economy and Hungary had to fund its border defenses via loans and ultimately decided not to pay for upgrades to the border defenses. Then it actually reevaluated why did it have those defenses in the first place when the Soviets were no longer going to crush them if they allowed some liberalization (like they did in 1956). The result was the end of the Iron Curtain in 1989 in the Eastern Bloc. Of course Vladdie was watching all that happen from East Germany and saw how little challenges to the authority of the autocrats was bad and decided to rule ruthlessly. Now, with the rich gulf states, the oligarchs, the mafia he's close to rebuilding his empire. Good luck to Europe and humanity if the United States won't be the bulwark.

This is. really interesting documentary in terms of style and substance!

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil." They will put that on our money.

This is a heck of a thread. Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠: "There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n" — Bluesky Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠: "One of Husserl's students, Hannah Arendt, was jailed by the Gestapo for her research on antisemitism prohibited by the Nazis and on her release, fled Germany. “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”- Hannah Arendt #AcademicFreedom 3/n" — Bluesky Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠: "Martin Heidegger, one of Husserl's most brilliant students and Arendt's lover of four years, soon after Hitler got to power, joined the Nazi Party and was elected rector of the Freiburg University. "National Socialism is a barbarous principle. That is its essence and potential greatness." 4/n" — Bluesky Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠: "After Hitler came to power, Edith Stein, another of Husserl's students, was forced to quit her teaching position. She became a Carmelite nun and perished in Auschwitz. “Those who remain silent are responsible.” - Edith Stein #AcademicFreedom 5/n" — Bluesky Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠: "After Hitler came to power, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was a Lutheran theologian and pastor, became an anti-Nazi dissident. The Nazis hanged him in 1945. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil." #AcademicFreedom 7/n" — Bluesky

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