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https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1780966894310187188 1780966894310187188

The great thing about having my first principles straightened out is it's easy to make absolutely correct snap judgments. This is all I need to know, straight from his pen: There are only two majority opinions on this. The first position is you never defund a government program, at all. Maybe there's a need sometimes for an external entity like an uber-powerful superpower to invade and topple your government and put in all new programs that will never be defunded, but the idea of removing funding from a program is otherwise anathema. The second position is you call for defunding a program you really don't like, and score some political points off of calling for defunding, but never actually tie it off. So it's the same as the first position but with some lie theater to advance some parasite's personal lot in life. Both positions are abhorrent and we've seen both expressed in articles in this thread. I didn't read the whole article and I don't need to - he's clearly in the first category, and that's all I need to know.

The DC area NPR affiliate does pretty well with their playlists, but there's still the Saturday afternoon opera. I love classical music, even going into some of the modernist stuff, but opera, in general, may as well be Noh theater to me. As my dad used to say: hours of caterwauling with a nice aria in between. Then one beautiful spring Saturday morning last year, I was inexpertly making up some way-too-strong CBD oil from a not-low THC strain and accidentally licked my fingers before going to Hobby Lobby. And while I was sitting in the parking lot too scared to go inside, I heard this: I had one of those moments of profound beauty that was carved into my entire soul for life, and NPR's crappy programming was responsible. I can't hate on it entirely.

And neither side will ever mention that Trump assassinated a general of a country we're not at war with, while the general was officially visiting another country we're not at war with. It doesn't really matter who he was or what he was doing - if those were facts on the ground, that's the sort of thing that not very long ago in history would have invited reprisals like collecting all the hands and feet of everyone in an entire city and throwing them in a pile and watching them all bleed out. If there's one thing Trump did during his presidency, it was to show that Iran is absolutely not the boogeyman everyone thinks they are. If they were, they had every casus belli they needed to be the worst boogeyman they could be on that occasion.

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I always think "Sword Swallower", but SS is both apropos and easier to type.

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Don't know how based he is in this clip (I haven't seen it yet), but I found it not long after posting the OP (he seems to be making the rounds), so here it is: CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #258: Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Campaign Against the Establishment https://rumble.com/v4q2ufz-former-rep.-dennis-kucinich-on-his-campaign-against-the-establishment.html {Glenn Greenwald | 17 April 2024} v4nhn78

Not a "Tucker on Twitter" item, but relevant, and seems like the best place short of creating a new thread: CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #258: Neocons Attack Tucker's Reputation for Dissent on Israel https://rumble.com/v4q2p7f-neocons-attack-tuckers-reputation-for-dissent-on-israel.html {Glenn Greenwald | 17 April 2024} v4nhhyo

CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #258: SCOTUS Highly Skeptical of Biden DOJ's Jan. 6 Prosecution Theory https://rumble.com/v4q2p8h-scotus-highly-skeptical-of-biden-dojs-jan.-6-prosecution-theory.html {Glenn Greenwald | 17 April 2024} v4nhhzq

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780566890437316738 1780566890437316738

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1780804297439011048 1780804297439011048

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https://twitter.com/ErinKYSpectrum/status/1780642126168002749 1780642126168002749

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1780689271327687110

David Hogg tries to "school" Coach on Constitutional law: https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1779980136877633779 & https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/1779986797486833852 https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1780591797120409721 to: https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/1780595173954838684

https://twitter.com/BobMurphyEcon/status/1780594307789128183 Video @ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1780726615187538385 1780726615187538385 Video @ Rumble:

https://twitter.com/moicanoufc/status/1780762386980303046 1780762386980303046 https://twitter.com/alfredohinny/status/1780727675729973578 1780727675729973578

https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1780752668870537457

https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1780517802614399288 to: https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1780602295245541473

Those are really good. IMO, Firefly is the best "sci-fi" series, and The Expanse is the best "science fiction" series. There's a lot more "sci-fi" out there than (bona fide) "science fiction" (probably because "sci-fi" is more amenable to general audiences). In my own personal taxonomy - where Firefly is at the "sci-fi" end of the spectrum and The Expanse is at the "science fiction" end of the spectrum - I'd classify Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica as "sci-fi". I'd put Star Trek (TOS & TNG, anyway - I'm not familiar enough with the others to say) on the "sci-fi" side of the spectrum, too - but with some tendrils reaching into the "science fiction" side. (Stuff like Star Wars wouldn't go on this spectrum at all - it's a separate sub-genre of speculative fiction I would call "space fantasy".)

The same kind of shenanigans occurred in the late Roman republic. Mos maiorum and long-established political "rules" started being blatantly and flagrantly violated for the sake of whatever political advantage could be gained in the moment. The killing of the tribune Tiberius Gracchus (under Roman law, the person of a tribune was sacrosanct during his term) ... the refusal of the tribune Octavian to lift his veto of the Lex Agraria (it was expected that a tribune should and would withdraw his veto after a time if it became clear the Assemblies were determined to approve an item) ... the seven consulships of Marius, some of them consecutive (no one person was ever supposed to be consul more than twice, and never in consecutive terms) ... and those are just few of the most notable violations of social and political norms that eventually led to the failure of the Roman republic and the advent of the Caesarian empire. History doesn't repeat - but there's an awful lot of rhyming going on right now ...

New NPR CEO Gave Ted Talk Asserting “Truth” is a “Distraction” Says it’s ‘getting in the way of getting things done’. https://modernity.news/2024/04/17/new-npr-ceo-gave-ted-talk-asserting-truth-is-a-distraction/ {Paul Joseph Watson | 17 April 2024} New NPR CEO Katherine Maher gave a Ted Talk during which she asserted that “truth” is a “distraction” which is “getting in the way of getting things done.” Calls are growing for NPR to have its government funding withdrawn after a series of tweets by Maher were uncovered in which she supported far-left causes, including endorsing racial reparations and making claims that the planet is “burning.” But the content of the Ted Talk she gave is raising even more eyebrows.

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She was (at least post facto) critical of the SEC's persecution of Jeremy Kauffman's LBRY, for whatever one thinks that might be worth: