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Why Does Science Say Everything Will Kill You?

How To Claim Your Specialty Suffers From "Climate Change" - And get government money for your pain

Blue states don't build. Red states do. A timely repost, with some updates.

Woke Boston Mayor Michelle Wu coddles rapists as ‘part of the family’

ICE Houston Scoops Up Over 600 Illegal Alien Criminals in Sweep

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Mark Penn: With Record Low Approval, How Can Democrats Recover in the Age of Trump?

Bonfire of the Insanities - Since when did anarchy become the calling
card of the Democratic Party? This is what we get from the educated
coastal, cultural elites?

Hemingway: Censorship Groups Produce Widely Used Tools To Silence Media That Fight False Narratives

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Science Says Everything Will Kill You because they want you to do what they want you to do, eat what they want you to eat, drink what they want you to drink and live the way they want you to do.

#1 Robert Sendler on 2025-03-26 10:14 (Reply)

I can still remember a time when the term 'science' added value to an argument. These days the word has been weaponized by authoritarians to push sinister agendas. 'Trust the science!' Thanks but I'll keep my own counsel. Dr. Fauci I'm looking at you.

#1.1 Lord Heathen on 2025-03-26 11:08 (Reply)

'Everything will kill you' Because Life is a terminal disease and of course the answer is simply don't get the cure....

#1.2 Dorf on 2025-03-26 11:24 (Reply)

Re: The National Signal Security group Chat that was "inadvertently" sent to Atlantic Magazine. I do wonder why a low level staffer put this particular news mans name on the list. I hope they investigate him because it seems likely he is a left wing sympathizer. Even though no classified information was shared the Democrats have made this their center piece for attacking Trump and his cabinet. All the more reason to believe that this was a left wing setup from the go.

#2 OneGuy on 2025-03-26 10:32 (Reply)

OneGuy: Even though no classified information

Classification is a bureaucratic determination. The information was clearly "relating to the national defense" of the United States and should have been kept secret for rather obvious reasons. If the information had found its way to the targets of the attacks, the targets could have avoided the attacks; or worse, counterattacked United States forces. The pending operation should never have been discussed on the Signal app, much less with a journalist on the chat.

#2.1 Zachriel on 2025-03-26 13:24 (Reply)

Everyone tuned into that meeting were bureaucrats other than the President, VP, and the journalist. Unless, of course, the journalist was part of the IC. And the President can declassify whatever he wishes. The IC has spent years pretending they are the sole keeper of 'secrets'. They are wrong.

#2.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-03-26 15:44 (Reply)

No. It is almost exclusively an executive function, aside from a few specific items that are statutorily classified. IOW, the criteria for determining if something is classified or not, and what level of classification it has are established by EOs. Those criteria are them implemented by presidential appointees whom the president delegates authority to. The president has the constitutional authority to remove the classified status of anything they choose to, arguably including the small number of statutorily classified items.

BTW, you have no idea what was said in the chat. Goldberg is a well known hyper-partisan and Trump hater who is demonstrably a serial liar about Trump. Further, Trump has publicly declared that there was nothing classified in the discussion, yet Goldberg steadfastly refuses to reveal more information. As someone being caught in a lie would.

#2.1.2 James on 2025-03-26 17:39 (Reply)

James: It is almost exclusively an executive function, aside from a few specific items that are statutorily classified.

There is little doubt that the timing of an impending attack would be classified from the get-go. But that's not the point. They didn't intentionally expose classified information. They accidentally exposed information that had the potential to cause serious harm to American's interests. Their actions probably weren't criminal, but they were certainly foolish.

#2.1.3 Zachriel on 2025-03-26 17:50 (Reply)

You don't know if the timing of the attack was discussed.

But you're ignoring the point. You were flat out wrong in claiming classification was a bureaucratic function. It is not, at all. But it is very on brand for you to conflate a bureaucratic oligarchy with a republican government with democratic elections.

#2.1.3.1 James on 2025-03-26 17:56 (Reply)

Radcliff on the Atlantic/democrat party Signal narrative.

https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1904586095733465291

#2.1.3.2 indyjonesouthere on 2025-03-26 18:45 (Reply)

James: You don't know if the timing of the attack was discussed.

Would it matter to you if they did?

James: You were flat out wrong in claiming classification was a bureaucratic function.

That wasn’t our point, but the foolishness of the chat participants. But to answer your question, classification is controlled by Executive Order 13526, whereby the president directs the executive bureaucracy on establishing a “uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information”.

#2.1.3.3 Zachriel (Link) on 2025-03-26 21:11 (Reply)

Such specific information on the attack was almost certainly classified. Trump may have declassified it “in his mind”, but it remains the height of folly to discuss the attack on a commercial app that can be compromised by nefarious actors, much less inviting a journalist to the chat.

#2.1.3.3.1 Zachriel (Link) on 2025-03-26 21:16 (Reply)

Several thousand people in the United States federal government have classification authority. Per Executive Order 13526, the authority stems from the President to agency heads to delegated officials at a cost of several billion dollars per year; in other words, a bureaucracy. The rules concerning classification have the force of law within the government.

#2.1.3.3.2 Zachriel (Link) on 2025-03-26 22:56 (Reply)

Quibble-DickZ quibbled five times.
Three times with themselvez.

#2.1.3.3.2.1 Zachinoff on 2025-03-26 23:25 (Reply)

And like any bureaucratic system, there are guidelines that flow from the Executive Order, from directives, and from experience. The information posted on the Signal chat almost certainly was classified.

Even if for some bizarre reason it wasn't officially classified (Trump declassified it pastwards in his mind) as it obviously should have been, it was information that was critical to keep secret during the ongoing operation. A commercial app with known vulnerabilities is not an acceptable channel. And no one in the meeting objected.

#2.1.3.3.3 Zachriel on 2025-03-27 09:24 (Reply)

Quibble #6 by the Quibble-DickZ to convince themselvez their comments are somehow relevant...

#2.1.3.3.3.1 Zachinoff on 2025-03-27 09:55 (Reply)

Democrats hold Pennsylvania state House with special election win

The House race is the fifth straight special election that Democrats have won so far in 2025, despite the party performing dismally in public opinion polling since losing control of the White House and Senate, and failing to win back the House majority in the 2024 elections.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-hold-pennsylvania-state-house-110742365.html

#3 feeblemind on 2025-03-26 12:33 (Reply)

That is LW propaganda. The republican candidate for an Iowa legislative seat won a March 11th election.

The PA outcome is also consistent with the transition of republican's to being the low propensity voter party. And with white college educated voters further migrating to the democrat party.

Which is not to say I would not have preferred for the R. candidate to have won.

#3.1 James on 2025-03-26 17:26 (Reply)

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