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Elections

I think Republicans

should do a TON of ballot harvesting wherever it’s legal. Look, Democrats started this. I don’t think Republicans are at all served by sitting by and not doing the same thing. It is stupid to unilaterally disarm.

We didn’t make the rules…

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Civil Rights Current Events

Yeah, ya

think maybe?

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Dementia Incompetence

The party of

“youth.” Sure. The party of dementia, rather!

The trifecta of incapability. Biden, Feinstein, and Fetterman.

Democrats, we’re laughing at you!

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Current Events Lefty Political Philosophy

I really am not

sure that there are the votes to pass this thing! I mean, probably, but perhaps not. I’m not at all certain that either the committed Right or the Loony Left will go along. And there is getting less and less “common ground” where the two sides can meet.

In other words, “Neither can live while the other survives,” and one side is about to become an endangered species…

But I think that as time goes by, there is more and more opposition to it. If I were a betting man, I might bet that this compromise doesn’t pass. McCarthy has certainly tried, but it appears that Democrats don’t want responsible spending.

The Democrat caucus reacts to wise spending limits……

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Current Events

There is some

real heartburn among Conservatives on this debt deal. It seems that spending in this thing merely goes from “catastrophic” to “really bad.” And for most Conservatives, that is simply not enough.

So the primary argument against it is that this still sends the country to Hell, only a bit slower.

The question for me is whether this thing will even have the votes to pass. And honestly, do we want it to? Or, is it a good thing–at least, the best that could have been done?

But others are not so sure that this isn’t an outright “win” for Conservatives. They say that McCarthy ate Biden’s lunch. And there is reason to say that:

As for the second, Biden is certainly stupid – he’s unquestionably the dimmest bulb of any American president, and that was even before the dementia set in – but he’s [also–ed.] not sincere. He hasn’t a sincere bone in his body. Sincerity was crowded out long ago by grift, graft, greed, avarice, hair plugs, self-aggrandizing lies, bribery, tax-cheating, plagiarism, tooth caps, his hatred and disowning of his own granddaughter, and the sweet smell of other little girls’ hair.

Predictably, when the Republicans called out Biden on his refusal to negotiate the debt ceiling, and even the media couldn’t spin his refusal as anything but a lazy Biden bluff, he reversed course and started negotiating. But caving on your promise not to negotiate is not exactly the strongest card with which to start negotiations. His caving not only weakened him in the negotiations, but weakened him in the eyes of the people, if that’s possible.

The ultimate outcome of the belated negotiations was a deal where Biden lost both substantively and politically. 

For me, I want to wait a bit and see how this shakes out. There are strong Conservative objections to the deal. But McCarthy has NOT been a weak negotiator. He seems NOT to be in the wimpy chump RINO mold of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney.

So I tentatively lean toward thinking McCarthy is the one who has actually prevailed. But let’s see how this all goes down…

But there is no question that Biden was negotiating from a weak position. Why? Two reasons: a) The House had already passed a bill with a debt ceiling increase. THAT put tremendous pressure on Senate Democrats and on Biden himself.

But there in another reason: His refusal to negotiate revealed him as a “bad guy,” and suddenly he needed a deal. McCarthy had no such restriction. He already HAD a viable proposal in place (the House bill). And so, McCarthy was sitting in the catbird seat.

I mean, can you just imagine what it would look like if Republicans had been called on to press those two issues? It would have looked unbelievably bad for team Biden. Biden was frantic to avoid that. And THAT, my friends, is how “Biden” got taken to the cleaners!

So maybe Biden brought unbelievably good negotiating skills to the table. And maybe he was able to both get out of the mess he was in and to rook McCarthy.

But I wouldn’t bet on it…

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Current Events

Oh yeah,

that hurts.

what morons!

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Current Events

Kohl’s: The

next rightful target (Target?).

Have they NOT learned? What, are they just slow?

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Epistemology Science

Science will

make limited claims about what appears to be the case (or technically, what appears NOT to be the case). But religion and philosophy make claims about what SHOULD BE.

Any halfway wise scientist understands that. Otherwise, it is mere Scientism, a sort of armchair speculation–a manifestation of a set of cultural beliefs.

And “scientists” who claim to have proven TRUTH are not actual scientists at all. They need to go back and read Karl Popper! (there is no verification, only tentative falsification)

The ONLY way to “prove” something true scientifically is to account for ALL variables (both known and unknown, including space and time). And that is not possible. In short, there is only correlation, NO CAUSATION.

And anything with a 100% correlation is, by definition, trivial.

So is science useful? OF COURSE! I myself am a scientist. But we need to acknowledge the very real limits on what science can reveal to us.

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Lefty Political Philosophy Moral Agency

Have you not

understood that for the Left, it is always and only about power?

That’s why VIOLENCE and FORCE are logically necessary parts of Leftism!

It is ALL about force and lack of moral agency! The battle has always been about moral agency. Leftism is just the latest variation on that theme. As always, it is wrapped in a patina of fairies and unicorns and good intentions so as to fool people and Judo-like,”flip” good intentions into evil actions.

Understand well that even the very smart are fooled. YOU are not too smart to be taken in, here!

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Bad Faith Hypocrisy

Oh yes,

I have some questions…

As one Internet wag said, “Why do drag queens want to read to little kids but never volunteer to read to people in rest homes?”

Again, I think we ALL know why…