WatDabney

Xenophobic white Christian nationalism, ignorance, fear, anger and hatred.

Oh no - of course not. They want late 19th century levels of robber baron wealth built on worker oppression, sickness, ignorance and death.

Valid point well made - thanks for that.

I'll be folding that into future screeds. ;)

Of course.

Conservatism is nothing but lies.

It starts with the foundational lie that the world was a better place in the past, then immediately segues to the grotequely destructive lie that if only they were given power, they could and wuold return the world to that fictional better era.

That immediately crashes into the simple fact that all of their actions actually serve to make the world worse. Every single thing they do brings more suffering to more people.

But that's okay - they're already lying, so they just lie more. And more and more and more.

And that's where the US is right now.

Political corruption should be a capital crime.

Tomorrow they're going to kill people.

Ah... yeah... I see it now. I took it wrong.

And yeah.

That's the same reason that I do the opposite - I take an equal number from each end, so the remaining eggs are centered in the carton, so I'm never surprised by a carton that's unbalanced in an unexpected direction.

Just from the context, let me guess - he opposes zionist oppression and murder and theft of Palestinian land, right?

And (looking him up)... yep. There it is.

So why the random potshot implying Mamdani is struggling to win over Jewish New Yorkers? On what basis does the Times make this claim? The reality is that Mamdani has alienated pro-Israel adovacy groups and pro-Israel donors, but this sounds too ideologically motivated, so instead the Times conflates the “Jewish community” with support for the Israeli government and its myriad war crimes in Gaza over the past 20 months.

On that note, has anyone else noticed that the governments and their media mouthpieces aren't even trying to trot out their standard "Israel has a right to defend itself" rhetoric? Even they realize that there's no way to even pretend that that's what Israel is doing now. All they have left is conflating opposition to Israeli actions and policies with "antisemitism," and they just flog that one lie constantly.

I always wonder what it must feel like to be that morally bankrupt. They can't possibly all be conscienceless monsters — what goes on in the heads of the ones that still have at least some vestige of a functioning moral center? How do they cope?

I presume it involves a lot of alcohol.

What I get from that is that Musk is no longer giving Trump's people access to all the data the collection of which was the entire point all along.

True, but in the short term, their elimination will provide a windfall for some corporations that will go toward bonuses and dividends for a handful of executives and shareholders, which in turn will allow them to buy more mansions and bigger yachts, and that's really all that matters now.

Lots of birds - sparrows, doves, quail, blackbirds, magpies, crows, orioles, finches, flickers, starlings, robins, wrens, hummingbirds, hawks, eagles, owls, ducks, geese, turkeys, seagulls, herons...

Plus rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, deer, foxes, coyotes...

Well... technically I almost never see the owls or the coyotes - I just hear them after dark.

There are also skunks and porcupines around, but I almost never see them either, though I do sometimes smell where a skunk has gone by. There are bobcats around too, but nobody ever sees them.