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Thursday, March 6. 2025

Thursday morning links

Key brain discovery could revolutionize Alzheimer’s treatment: ‘Rare opportunity’


But no mention of clinical improvement


Study reveals 300K NYC public school students — nearly 35% — ‘chronically absent’ as grades plummet, spending surges


Professors accuse Trump, Musk of lawlessness, anti-democratic extremism in UMich teach-in


Dr. Bhattacharya Comes to Washington. Plus. . . California universities face new antisemitism probe. Our editors on why fiscal sanity means getting beyond DOGE. China says it’s “ready for war.” And more.


The Democrat Party is Imploding as Backlash Over Members’ Childish Behavior Mounts


If There Are Any Decent Democrats Left, They're Awfully Quiet


CBS Poll Finds, Much to Their Dismay, Americans Loved the Speech


The speech was just normal


The Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome comes home to roost. The party needs a reality check


European Conservatives aren't American Conservatives


Re Ukraine: What does Eli Lake want?

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re China says it’s “ready for war.” And more.

China talking smack.

They are used to everyone playing by their rules. I imagine they are more than a little concerned with Trump's actions.
#1 feeblemind on 2025-03-06 09:43 (Reply)
If China decides to take Tiawan it will be a massive sea and air attack. There will be a carrier group near enough to respond and get involved. The Chinese will have a massive force there and it is likely that all or most of the carrier group will be lost/sunk with losses of between 8000-10000 navy personal in a matter of hours. That "defeat" would be unthinkable and we would have no other choice but to respond. With the carrier group would be one or two nuclear missile armed subs that would likely survive the attack. So what would be our best option to respond quickly and decisively? Knowing that the news of an "attack" on our carrier group with all hands lost will set the mood of the nation and the politicians and a nuclear response is likely. What then?
#1.1 OneGuy on 2025-03-06 10:14 (Reply)
I don't have the answers to your questions, One Guy. The scenario you describe could happen.

However with regard to their statement that I was commenting on, it's not going to happen today. That was yet another attempt to intimidate and bully US.

If Taiwan was easy pickings, China would have taken it by now IMO.

The Chinese armed forces may not be as formidable as we perceive them to be.

Another Chinese Army Purge

https://strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/2025022303413.aspx#gsc.tab=0
#1.1.1 feeblemind on 2025-03-06 10:42 (Reply)
Why would we have no other chouce but to respond? Our foreign policy has been blinkered as is. We should stay out of it - and make our own microchips.
#1.1.2 Maniac on 2025-03-06 11:41 (Reply)
RE The Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome comes home to roost.

It's just indicative of how deep the political divide is in this country.

And while Trump makes them insane, recall the hate when Bushitler was in power and all the Dems that had BDS. I imagine the hate will be just as irrational and white hot if another GOP president comes to power.
#2 feeblemind on 2025-03-06 09:53 (Reply)
I don’t recall a single professor in the whole United States, complaining about lawlessness and anti democratic behavior, as Joe Biden went about ignoring Supreme Court decisions on the canceling of student loan debt.
#3 B. Hammer on 2025-03-06 10:15 (Reply)
Excellent point B. Hammer.

As JJ Sefton wrote:

QUOTE:
So the qustion is, does PTOUS Trump have the wherewithal, from a technical/practical standpoint to ignore the ruling and simply cut off the funding? More crucially, does he have the stones to tell Roberts and the Court to go piss up rope? S0, what I'm asking is what would be the short term and of course long term political consequences to us and the nation should he actually do this? If we are in a post-Constitutional period, and with one side, the Democrats, using said document as a shield and cudgel, when not using it as toilet paper, Where do we go from here as a society, given perhaps as many as a third of the citizenry are full on board with destroying the nation as founded, for a litany of reasons.

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/413927.php
#3.1 feeblemind on 2025-03-06 10:55 (Reply)
B. Hammer: Joe Biden went about ignoring Supreme Court decisions on the canceling of student loan debt.

That is not correct. Biden justified the original plan under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities For Students (HEROES) Act, which allows the government to waive provisions of student loans during a national emergency. The Supreme Court ruled in Biden v. Nebraska that the specific statute did not provide such a broad authorization as Biden was claiming. In response to the ruling, Biden crafted a narrower student loan forgiveness policy under preexisting loan programs. That policy was also put on hold by the courts, though some loans modifications were allowed to go forward.

While you could argue that Biden kept trying to push the limits of the law, at no point did he ignore a court ruling.
#3.2 Zachriel on 2025-03-06 12:49 (Reply)
QUOTE:
CBS Poll Finds, Much to Their Dismay, Americans Loved the Speech

Well, among Americans who actually watched the speech, which was majority Republican. If independents who watched were split, many of whom may lean Republican, then you arrive at the poll result.
#4 Zachriel on 2025-03-06 12:55 (Reply)

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