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Friday, November 15. 2024Friday morning linksNYC office buildings brimming with workers at nearly pre-pandemic levels: ‘Work from home is dying’ Scientific American Editor in Chief, Laura Helmuth Resigns - Science Saved Liberals Run Away From X Because Diverse Opinions Make Them Feel Unsafe Crazy things our tax $ goes to This NYT Post-Election Focus Group of Young Voters Is Brutal for the Media...and Incredible for JD Vance Progressives insult Americans because Trump won. Guess who that helps? Kling: My Social Journey Toward the Right - How I decided to believe libertarians and conservatives Trump cabinet picks RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard at Mar-a-Lago gala with Tucker Carlson, Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle TGIF: Department of Eat My Shorts - Trump’s picks go from normal to Amusing Peter Thiel is a smart guy Trump broke the Democrats’ thermostat. The American left was sent spinning in 2016 and is yet to recalibrate J.D. Vance Proved That Republicans Should Ignore Democrat Attacks Pelosi’s Latest Big Lie Is Too Much Even for the Washington Post The UK lies After Amsterdam Pogrom, Pro-Hamas Demonstrators Riot in Paris The EU's economic suicide
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Scientific American Editor in Chief, Laura Helmuth Resigns - Science Saved
So what's up first to rescue SciAm? Make it more scientific? or make it more American? I opt for the second, 'cause associate editors, communists columnists, and their ilk can be "resigned" in a heartbeat. Scientific American Editor in Chief, Laura Helmuth Resigns - Science Saved
Nonsense. Scientific American had gone down the tubes long before she was at the helm. The leadership that put her in place is still there. I couldn’t read the whole TGIF article. Subscription required. I did follow the anti Gaetz linked article from The Dailey Beast. The Dailey Beast looks like a rendition of The National Inquirer. Gaetz sure has gotten under the skin of all the wrong people. I will say that his lone vote against the human trafficking bill is odd. I don’t think he stands a snowballs chance in hell of being confirmed by the swamp creatures in the Senate. However, Gaetz is another one of Trumps picks that have had negative run-ins with the swamp, that right there gives me confidence in his character. I’m still reserving judgment.
Science is a long way from being saved. Scientific American hasn’t been worth reading since the 80’s. I canceled my subscription when they dedicated an entire edition to missile defense - how it will never work. Impossible. What ever Don Jr’s role in this version of Trump, I’m grateful for his leadership. America would be gone had that imbecile Kamala been elected. We still have a long haul ahead of us. The demoncrats have a 100 year head start. There is an entire generation of young white women and men, that have severe mental health issues. How do we help them? Here’s hoping that the next two years bring about some real change in Washington. Any amount of gutting government, I shall cheer on with great enthusiasm. Make America Great Again! We may be at the end of the nutball era (for now) but the nutballs are still there, and we must learn how to deal with them.
Driving around on my chores up here in Canada, I've been tuning my radio to the SiriusXM "Progress" channel (I think it's channel 127).
I don't know whether it's funny or sad but the key theme is denial of course. Instead of perhaps pondering what they might have done wrong in the election (i.e., a little honest introspection on how to rebuild the Democratic Party for the next election), the folks at this channel have decided to offer - some surprise! - más de lo mismo. Yeah, sure, that'll work. Oh, and here's a tip, freely offered: expressions like the resistance and the struggle continues don't work with regular folks, who quite correctly view them as the tired tropes of failed, third-rate countries like Cuba. You're welcome! Did the Black Death drive Europe's ascendance over the rest of the world?
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n21/tom-shippey/blame-the-gerbils X Sees Return Of Major Advertisers As NewsGuard & "Boycott Cartel" Come Under Fire From FCC
QUOTE: the woke cabal of advertisers trying to starve conservative platforms out of a voice is now coming under fire. In a Wednesday letter to Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Apple, and Meta, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr accused them of having "participated in a censorship cartel that included not only technology and social media companies but advertising, marketing, and so-called "fact-checking" organizations as well as the Biden-Harris Administration itself.". . . . . . Carr then suggested that their protection from liability under Section 230 may be on the line. "As you know, Big Tech's prized liability shield, Section 230, is codified in the Communications Act, which the FCC administers. As relevant here, Section 230 only confers benefits on Big Tech companies when they operate, in the words of the statute, "in good faith." https://www.zerohedge.com/political/x-sees-mass-return-major-advertisers-newsguard-boycott-cartel-come-under-fire Blankety-blank spam-o-meter didn't let me enter possible links.
The Dept. of the Interior should be moved to... the interior. A medium sized city in the center West of America. Cheyenne or Fort Collins.
The FBI headquarters needs to be out of Washington and more centrally located; St Louis perhaps. Almost every federal office should be closer to the center mass of Americans population OR closer to their primary concerns. The ATFE should have it's name changed to the ATE. They have shown disregard for Americans 2nd amendment rights and there is no real purpose for a federal agency to regulate or infringe on our rights. Fort Collins is a deep blue libtard, college town. Cheyenne might work. I would prefer the Dept. of the Interior in the deepest red small town you can find. Maybe Oklahoma; the only state in the Union where every county is red.
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