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Trickle-down economics is a fraud.

racocn8 comments on Apr 10, 2024:

Another celebrity clothes-horse to distract the masses and gum-up the works. Corruption incarnate.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 10, 2024:

And yet not as bad as Trump. Incredible.

Trickle-down economics is a fraud.

yvilletom comments on Apr 10, 2024:

. . . giving money to billionairs and hoping they will let it trickle down.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 10, 2024:

It's laughable.

To our MAGA friends and neighbors:

Mooolah comments on Apr 9, 2024:

We have MAGA friends?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 10, 2024:

We have friends. They have co-conspiritors.

To our MAGA friends and neighbors:

annewimsey500 comments on Apr 9, 2024:

Just standing here, watching in horror, since 2015-ish.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 10, 2024:

Me too. I never thought he could possibly win that year.

Trickle-down economics is a fraud.

Jolanta comments on Apr 9, 2024:

And since then?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 9, 2024:

It has, as Barney says, only gotten worse.

A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.

Barnie2years comments on Apr 9, 2024:

He does sort of have cheese face! At least the color matches, anyway!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 9, 2024:

Cheddar doesn't usually stink, but then again he does tend to break norms.

Why do Republicans want to cut Medicare and Social Security?

Alienbeing comments on Apr 8, 2024:

Other then two wierdo Republicans, why do you think "Republicans" want to cut SS & Medicare?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 9, 2024:

@Alienbeing The Republican platform has been lower corporate taxes and deregulation at least since Reagan. There's really no mystery about that. The idea is called "trickle-down economics. Supposedly, the more money left in the hands of the billionaires, the more jobs they create, and the more money trickles down to the working class. And social programs have more recently been painted as crypto communist. It's all bullshit, if course. But the Republicans have had a very well-oiled propaganda machine working round the clock. And with the help of bloviating fascist slobs like Rush Limbaugh, so-called "conservatives" have been sold this bill of goods.

Why do Republicans want to cut Medicare and Social Security?

Alienbeing comments on Apr 8, 2024:

Other then two wierdo Republicans, why do you think "Republicans" want to cut SS & Medicare?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 8, 2024:

Two weirdo Republican presidents, and the other elected weirdo Republicans in Congress who follow their lead, and the tens of millions (like 70, at last count) of voting weirdo Republicans. It's not nothing, as you seem to imply. As for the why, that's easy: because their billionaire overlords don't want their taxes raised to support social welfare programs. They want to keep their billions and to hell with poor people.

The Republican platform:

Druvius comments on Apr 8, 2024:

And this has given the Dems all the cover they need to completely sell out America to the interests of the Pentagon, the arms industry, the fossil fuel industry, and corporate America. Neither party gives a sheet about poor and working class Americans.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 8, 2024:

Biden has made huge investments in green energy. Bigger than any Republican administration for damn sure. Who came up with a way for tens of millions of uninsured Americans to get coverage? Obama. And who signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act? LBJ. And who gave millions of jobless Americans jobs, Social Security, and Medicare. FDR All Democrats, with a capital D. 🙂 Not saying the military industrial complex isn't a bloated tick on the body politic. Also not saying that corporations are paying their fair share of taxes, or that they're not raping the land, polluting the water, and fouling the air.

So THAT'S what Epstein and Trump were up to. 🧐

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 31, 2024:

If you believe that, I have this bridge for sale...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 8, 2024:

@Seriousreason FYI, seditious conspiracy is sedition. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/court-sentences-two-oath-keepers-leaders-seditious-conspiracy-and-other-charges-related-us#:~:text=Rhodes%20and%20Meggs%20were%20found,tampering%20with%20documents%20and%20proceedings. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/proud-boys-leader-sentenced-22-years-prison-seditious-conspiracy-and-other-charges-related Insurrection is a subset contained within the definition of sedition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition Next question.

Less than 8 days 'til Trump's (first) criminal trial.

HippieChick58 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

The wheels of justice grind slowly.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 6, 2024:

Indeed! And in this case, hopefully, down to a fine powder.

Penalty kick 🎃⚖️😂

Organist1 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

Where can I try out for that team?!?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 6, 2024:

Take a number. The line is looooooong. 😂

Today's analogues of the magnificent seven (American cowboys or Japanese samurai, take your pick) ...

HippieChick58 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

Good ones!!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 6, 2024:

Nice. Now no one will know what the hell I was talking about. 😂

Today's analogues of the magnificent seven (American cowboys or Japanese samurai, take your pick) ...

HippieChick58 comments on Apr 6, 2024:

Good ones!!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 6, 2024:

🦢🦆 I got swans and ducks. No geese. 🙂

"If God didn't want them to be sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep!" -- the Calvera ...

EricJones comments on Apr 4, 2024:

I wouldn't put that past him-he'll do anything for a buck and he doesn't care who he takes the money from.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 4, 2024:

Including adversary countries.

Hear no insurrection, see no insurrection, speak no insurrection.

HippieChick58 comments on Apr 4, 2024:

I hope that a huge fire burns his a$$ very soon!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 4, 2024:

Jury selection starts April 15 😎👍

Citizen scientist measured Rockies snowfall for 50 years. Two new hips help him keep going

DenoPenno comments on Apr 4, 2024:

Water is precious but we have no more or no less of it that we ever had. A big problem is that government wants to send needed water to larger areas and this will cause a shortage for some of us. Maybe a shortage for many before it is over.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 4, 2024:

Actually, we do have less fresh water available than we used to. Ancient aquifers are rapidly being drawn down all around the world. And the recharge rate on fossil water is so slow, it is essentially a non-renewable resource. Once you pull that water out, it's gone. Also, as glaciers melt away, the year-round supply of fresh water they used to provide goes away too. Again, less water is available. And higher average temperatures dry things out faster. The evaporation of fresh water impounded behind dams is higher, so not only are the droughts longer, they take away more of the water we have in storage. There are too many examples of this to list, but a couple you may have heard about are the City of Atlanta's reservoir and lakes Mead and Powell. Sorry to be so full of good tidings.

In the fine old tradition of galling sanctimony, rank hypocrisy, and religious hucksterism.

HippieChick58 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

I have totally lost all respect for Lee Greenwood. However, the video is great!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 3, 2024:

@annewimsey500 I'm liking it! 😎👍

So THAT'S what Epstein and Trump were up to. 🧐

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 31, 2024:

If you believe that, I have this bridge for sale...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 2, 2024:

@Seriousreason Bro, you can think whatever you want. That is your right. Just don't expect me to respect the crackpot ideas themselves. The stuff you have written to me is absolute bullshit. There is no middle ground on whether the 2020 election was stolen (it wasn't), or whether Trumpty Dumpty tried to stage a coup (he did), whether the attack on the Capitol on January 6 was an insurrection (it was), or whether the Mango Musolini instigated it (he did). You do know that the leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys are doing hard time for sedition, right? And that over 1,000 dumb asses who believed Orange Foolius's lies about the election having been stolen have been convicted of crimes they committed on the day, right? You know Done Cheato's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani has a $150 million judgement against him for defaming two Georgia election workers, saying they committed election fraud, right? And that Fox has to pay Dominion Voting Systems $780 million for defamation, right? For disseminating Trump's lies about the election? Well, maybe not. Fox didn't cover that bit of news. And John Eastman, one of the architects of the fake electors scheme is being disbarred, along with Sydney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, who hoth pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit election fraud on behalf of Donald Dementia Trump. I suggest you quit listening to Fox "News" or whatever bonehead right-wing propaganda outlet you're tuning in to. They're feeding you a lot of crap. And when you repeat that bullshit you just make yourself look like an idiot.

An example of how things can change and yet stay the same:

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

When I was growing up "A Trump" was a fart, "To Trump" was to fart and "Trumping" was breaking wind loudly and without restraint.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 2, 2024:

What part of the country was that?

In the fine old tradition of galling sanctimony, rank hypocrisy, and religious hucksterism.

HippieChick58 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

I have totally lost all respect for Lee Greenwood. However, the video is great!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 2, 2024:

Anyone who does business with Trump deserves rejection and bankruptcy. Happily, Mike Lindel (my pillow guy) has gone broke. And Rudy Giuliani has a $150 million judgement against him. And Fox "News" had to pay $780 million, and John Eastman is being disbarred, and so is Sydney Powell,...

For the first time in the 247-year history of the nation (counting from the Declaration of ...

HippieChick58 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

I hope this is the worst nightmare Donnieboy has ever faced. I want it to torture him in his dreams.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 2, 2024:

It's hard to say which vexes him more, losing his business and half a billion dollars or losing this criminal trial. The latter is not likely to cost as much money or deprive him of his freedom; it's more symbolic than anything.

Richard Dawkins says Christianity is "fundamentally decent," but Islam "is not" -- Friendly ...

Fernapple comments on Apr 2, 2024:

I think that he is wrong, perhaps due to a sentimental attachment to Christianity. There is a darkness at the heart of Christianity which even the followers of Islam can see. The demand for absolute moral standards, to an impossible level, which insures that everyone fails, and then have to seek the...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 2, 2024:

Indeed, rather than teaching its followers to be good stewards of the natural world, Christianity teaches them they are entitled to exercise dominion over it. This malignant attitude may very well prove to be our undoing: the destruction of not only our civilization but also our species (and many, many others).

In the fine old tradition of galling sanctimony, rank hypocrisy, and religious hucksterism.

annewimsey500 comments on Apr 2, 2024:

This was Extremely enjoyable! TFP!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 2, 2024:

I'm so glad you liked it ☺️

An example of how things can change and yet stay the same:

Mooolah comments on Apr 2, 2024:

mango mussolini per Dharmabum

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 2, 2024:

Mango Musolini...I like it! 😂

Kenya pastor who claims to be Jesus Christ ...

nogod4me comments on Apr 2, 2024:

https://youtu.be/spmPOvzRBgA?si=12Wn3sGGyY9FgO8-

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 2, 2024:

I can't watch the whole thing. It's just too dumb. 🤣

So THAT'S what Epstein and Trump were up to. 🧐

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 31, 2024:

If you believe that, I have this bridge for sale...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 1, 2024:

@DenoPenno I was treated to a sampling of that nonsense the other day by someone here who, ironically, goes by the screen name @Seriousreason: "What are Biden's accomplishments then ??Ill wait.. Dont say the so called " infrastructure ". bill . One collapsing crucial bridge could of done with some sturdier infrastructure thats for sure. . An acciden that's proving increasingly likely to be caused by incompetence." He also claims January 6 was no insurrection, that Trump didn't incite the mob,... 😂😢🤯😵‍💫😵

Religion has not been about peace

michelle666gar comments on Mar 30, 2024:

We were forced to believe it!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Apr 1, 2024:

@LenHazell53 The MAGA Republicans are batshit crazy em effers.

In 2016 Donald J.

David1955 comments on Mar 31, 2024:

I've never understood why Stormy is considered something of a victim in this story, or at least a sympathetic figure, given that what she was doing was a kind of extortion in an election year. My loathing of Trump aside, and my longing to see him in prison, I do not see her as anything but a ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 31, 2024:

I have never seen her as a victim, except in that she was defamed by Trump. (He called her a liar and said she was "horsefaced.") But that was to be expected. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas, right? Ultimately, she has done the country a great service in helping to expose the mendacious criminality of a very dangerous enemy of the people. She has earned every penny she got out of Trump and any royalties from her book.

In 2016 Donald J.

Jolanta comments on Mar 31, 2024:

And these are the ones we know about.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 31, 2024:

A score of women have accused him of sexual assault...

Human Resources Manager's Exam question:

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 31, 2024:

He must never be allowed near the Oval Office ever again!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 31, 2024:

No, never again!

So THAT'S what Epstein and Trump were up to. 🧐

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 31, 2024:

If you believe that, I have this bridge for sale...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 31, 2024:

Is it in Baltimore?

Religion has not been about peace

michelle666gar comments on Mar 30, 2024:

We were forced to believe it!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 31, 2024:

@LenHazell53 Approximately half of the US. The other half not so much.

Three young persons, a man and two women, were sitting across from me at the coffeehouse for an hour...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Mar 31, 2024:

Thank your lucky stars they didn't try to convert you to their wacko cult. You dodged a bullet bro. 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 31, 2024:

@AlanCliffe Good choice. Sometimes we make our own luck. 😂

Missing from the list: Rosie O'Donnell, Nancy Pelosi, Niki Haley, Megyn Kelly, Angela Merkel, ...

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 31, 2024:

I hope women of America hand him his a$$ and kick him to the gutters!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 31, 2024:

I think that is exactly what they are going to do. 😂

Let's be very clear about what we are dealing with here.

Seriousreason comments on Mar 30, 2024:

Its truly amazing to read the comments , regarding the initial post . To deny the intended meaning of his " bloodbath " comment is just self delusion. Worse even still is the sheer projection on display . Age has little to do with Bidens incompetence. Hes been incompetent for his ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 31, 2024:

@Seriousreason The incitement was not just on the stage of the Ellipse, but also the two months of claiming the election had been stolen that preceded January 6th. And yes. Trump did say "peacfully" once. He also used the word "fight" 13 times in the same speech. Trump brought more than 60 lawsuits claiming electoral fraud, and lost them all. Trump's own Cyber Security Czar says it was the "cleanest election in history." Trump's own Attorney General says Trump's claims of electoral fraud are "bullshit." Trump called the mob to Washington on the 6th. They came because they believed his lies about the election. Trump sat on his fat ass watching the violence at the Capitol on TV and did nothing to stop it. Instead, he threw gasoline on the fire with a tweet that put his own VP's head in a noose. White House staff tried to get him to call off his dogs, and he refused for 3 hours. Well in advance of the 6th Trump had slates of fake electors ready to go, ready for Pence to steal the election for him. Failing that, Trump had minions in the house and senate ready to throw up enough smoke to have Congress declare the results invalid, thus giving it to the state legislatures to decide. And failing that, he had his MAGA mob there to shut the whole joint session down, again leaving it up to the states. And with a majority of them controlled be Republicans, Trump would be declared the winner. It almost worked. Trump almost pulled 9ff his coup. But he didn't count on his VP and members of Congress being so stalwart. They stood pat and completed their constitutional duty. Trump underestimated them, because he figured they would do what he would do under the same circumstances: turn tail and run. Like most bullies, behind the tough talk he's really just a quivering coward. Nancy Pelosi has more moral courage in her little finger than Trumpty Dumpty has in his whole bloated carcass. Pretty much everything Trump touches turns to shit. The only thing he has ever succeeded at was playing a successful business man on TV. Funny how "reality" TV is anything but real. Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that I'm wrong about all this. Let's say Trump is actually innocent. Then why doesn't he ask for a speedy trial to clear his name as quickly as possible? Why would he rather go through the entire campaign season and election with this cloud hanging over him? An innocent man would want his day in court. Hell, it should be a cakewalk for him. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. And the bar for conviction is high: unanimous agreement beyond a reasonable doubt. Yet all Trump does is delay, delay, delay.

Religion has not been about peace

Lizard_of_Ahaz comments on Mar 30, 2024:

Religions have never been about peace they have always been about control... If Christ-insanity had been about peace the 30 year war and many others would never have happened and hundreds of millions would still be alive today... In this I include Russia's wars on Ukraine.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 30, 2024:

I think Putin is using religion more than religion is using Putin. But if it was worth a shit, the religion would not allow itself to be used by a bloody, malignant autocrat. The Orthodox patriarch has no integrity or balls at all.

You know she's thinking it. We're ALL thinking it. 😂

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 30, 2024:

That's the one I want him wearing.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 30, 2024:

We'll just have to be patient and hope for the best 🔨

From greatness, through mediocrity, and into criminality and treason in eight-score years.

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 30, 2024:

It is sad how they have devolved. Lincoln must be crying in his grave.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 30, 2024:

He's spinning, for sure 😡

Let's be very clear about what we are dealing with here.

Seriousreason comments on Mar 30, 2024:

Its truly amazing to read the comments , regarding the initial post . To deny the intended meaning of his " bloodbath " comment is just self delusion. Worse even still is the sheer projection on display . Age has little to do with Bidens incompetence. Hes been incompetent for his ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 30, 2024:

@Seriousreason A jury of citizens heard Carroll and other witnesses and found them credible. Trump didn't even offer a defense beyond claiming he "never met her" and she wasn't "his type." But there are photos of them together, and Trump mistakenly identified Carroll as his second wife. So obviously he met her and she was his type. Trump is a bad liar, but what he lacks in imagination he makes up with volume. The man can't open his mouth without some kind of calumny ir mendacity spilling out. There is absolutely no indication that Carroll is crazy. However, listening to Trump's weird word salad it's clear that he has a few screws loose. So you want to blame that bridge collapse on...who exactly? Because we have all seen the video; the lights going out on the ship; the impact with the bridge support. Biden is good, but it sounds like you want Superman for president. 😂😂😂 If you want to go after oligarchs, there are some right here in the good old USA that could use a licking. I'm talking about the owners of the corporations who took advantage of the choked supply chain to jack up their prices way beyond reason and left them in the stratosphere just because they could. But don't believe me; just look at their quarterly profit and loss statements. For the profiteering robber barons, the pandemic was a windfall -- a gift that keeps on giving. You appear not to have watched the J6 Select Committee hearings, or read the indictments, or know that, except under Trump, federal prosecutors don't bring charges unless they have the evidence to convict. Well, happily, it doesn't matter what you think, because 5 grand juries in 4 different jurisdictions heard enough credible evidence to indict the orange foolius. But you don't really need to know that. Just look at how Trumpty Dumpty is reacting. An innocent man would want to clear his name, and have his day in court as soon as possible. But Don Poorleon only seeks to delay, delay, delay. He knows he's guilty and when a trial jury hears the evidence, he's toast!

Let's be very clear about what we are dealing with here.

Seriousreason comments on Mar 30, 2024:

Its truly amazing to read the comments , regarding the initial post . To deny the intended meaning of his " bloodbath " comment is just self delusion. Worse even still is the sheer projection on display . Age has little to do with Bidens incompetence. Hes been incompetent for his ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 30, 2024:

To deny the very real and numerous accomplishments of the Biden administration is sheer willful blindness. Biden is adroit and effective. Trump is so incompetent, he literally couldn't do anything right. He couldn't kill Obamacare, he couldn't pass an infrastructure bill, he didn't build the wall he promised, he badly fumbled COVID-19 and caused some 200,000 excess deaths, he tried to extort a personal political favor from a a foreign country by withholding military aid that Congress had already funded, tried to overturn a fair election that he lost, falsified his business records in furtherance of a scheme to hide the fact of a sexual encounter with a porn actress while his wife was home with their newborn son, tried to overturn an election that he lost fair and square by inciting a mob to attack the Capitol in order to disrupt the counting of electoral college votes in a joint session of Congress. Then he stole reams of classified documents and left them unguarded in his beach club where any number of foreign agents could have photographed or stolen them. Then he lied, subborned perjury, and obstructed justice when the government came asking for its documents. All Trump did was give a big, fat tax break to the wealthiest Americans and corporations, while stripping away environmental protections and ignoring the climate crisis. What a loser! We don't even need to get into the facts that Trump is an adjudicated rapist, and that his company has been found liable for systematic fraud over many years, and the self-styled billionaire cant come up with the cash to pay the fines levied against him. What a loser! 😂😂😂 Meanwhile Joe Biden has quietly taken care of business. He got the biggest infrastructure bill in history passed, lowered prescription drug prices through Medicare, got American manufacturing humming, including strategically important semiconductor chips, rebuilt our relationships with our allies, shepherded the country through the pandemic, reduced inflation more than any other developed country, got the stock market hitting all-time highs, added millions of jobs, and provided the economy a soft landing coming out of the pandemic. He would sign a bipartisan bill that would immediately help solve the immigration problem but Trump and his MAGA minions wont let the bill come up for a vote because they would rather bitch about the border and fix it.

[huffpost.com] My brain can't handle any more of this st.

Flyingsaucesir comments on Mar 28, 2024:

Q: If he's so concerned about immigration, then why doesn't he support the bipartisan Senate immigration bill? A: Because he doesn't really want to solve the problem; he would rather have it to bitch about.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 29, 2024:

@yvilletom If you call acknowledging the benefits of immigration (providing essential workers, cultural enrichment) and the humanitarian obligation (to genuine seekers of asylum) bitching, then yes, on our side too.

Liar, liar, platform on 🔥

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 28, 2024:

I hope it fries him!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 28, 2024:

The stock price will probably never be higher than it was on the day of the IPO.

He was just getting warmed up.

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 28, 2024:

He wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the A$$

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 28, 2024:

If you look up "pathological liar" you should find a picture of him.

THE BIGGEST LOSER While he was alive, Fred Trump repeatedly bailed his son Donald Trump out from ...

DenoPenno comments on Mar 27, 2024:

We need to focus on the idea that Trump has failed business and others dropped because they did not make a profit, somewhere along this route the conman made personal profit.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 27, 2024:

Thank you! That is exactly what this post is for: to give people a handy pocket reference guide to the BIGGEST LOSER's losses. 😂

THE BIGGEST LOSER While he was alive, Fred Trump repeatedly bailed his son Donald Trump out from ...

yvilletom comments on Mar 27, 2024:

In other major nations, would someone using Trump’s methods rise to political power and retain it more successfully? He has not yet killed anyone, but he has tried to motivate others to kill.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 27, 2024:

Trump often employs the tactics of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He quotes Adolf Hitler verbatim. So I would have to say yes, others who used his tactics have risen to power. Did they retain that power for long? No, but removing them cost millions of lives.

THE BIGGEST LOSER While he was alive, Fred Trump repeatedly bailed his son Donald Trump out from ...

Switchcraft comments on Mar 27, 2024:

Scarily, he came very close to retaining the presidency last time.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 27, 2024:

...but for the actions of a few good people...We dodged a bullet.

In the first place god made idiots ...

Flyingsaucesir comments on Mar 26, 2024:

The 18th century had Johnathan Swift; the 19th century had Mark Twain; the 20th century had Will Rogers, George Carlin, and Dave Allen; the 21st has Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, John Stewart, Al Franken,...et al. We're doing alright. 😂

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 27, 2024:

@snytiger6 Oh shit! I'll fix that right away! 😂

Use the graph below to find out what the climate was like on Earth when each of its five mass ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2024:

Five mass extinctions is probably not enough data to base patterns on, any appearance of pattern in a set that small is most likely due to mere random chance, and the human failing of being too ready to see patterns. It used to be thought that a pattern could be found, if you included all the twenty...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 27, 2024:

@Fernapple Good point! The Triassic-Jurassic extinction may be an analogue to the Anthropocene extinction. Of course, habitat destruction caused by humans was not a factor 210 million years ago.

Use the graph below to find out what the climate was like on Earth when each of its five mass ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2024:

Five mass extinctions is probably not enough data to base patterns on, any appearance of pattern in a set that small is most likely due to mere random chance, and the human failing of being too ready to see patterns. It used to be thought that a pattern could be found, if you included all the twenty...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 26, 2024:

@Fernapple, @Polemicist Although it is not reflected on this graph as a big temperature spike, (from Wikipedia) "...the most well-supported and widely-held theory for the cause of the Tr-J extinction places the blame on the start of volcanic eruptions in the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP), which was responsible for outputting a high amount of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere, inducing profound global warming, along with ocean acidification." I don't know what accounts for the disparity between the "widely-held theory" and the graph that I posted. Any insight into this would be appreciated. I realize that it may be asking too much to infer a pattern from the given data sets. My goal here is to get people thinking about what has occurred in the past, let that inform our understanding of what is happening today, and hopefully see what the future might bring if we keep on with business as usual. Thanks for your input. I am thinking about ways to improve this post.

He sold us out.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

And some bastards will still vote for him

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 26, 2024:

@LenHazell53 Who would fardels bear,...?

He sold us out.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

And some bastards will still vote for him

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 26, 2024:

@LenHazell53 Ah, you know the Bard...😍

He sold us out.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 26, 2024:

And some bastards will still vote for him

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 26, 2024:

There's the rub.

He sold us out.

Mooolah comments on Mar 26, 2024:

And deport Murdoch

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 26, 2024:

And burn Fox "News" to the ground.

He sold us out.

Barnie2years comments on Mar 26, 2024:

Of course he did! All the charges now against him are only the tip of the iceberg.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 26, 2024:

Oh yeah! What you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt is just a tiny slice of the crimes that were actually committed.

Use the graph below to find out what the climate was like on Earth when each of its five mass ...

Polemicist comments on Mar 26, 2024:

The data may not belong to a particular parametric probability distribution. One cooling, one or more asteroids, and more than one volcanic episode does not a general pattern make but suggests a rule of thumb that massive environmental disturbance leads to extinction. Stay cool, watch the sky ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 26, 2024:

Please see @Fernapple's comment and my reply below.

Use the graph below to find out what the climate was like on Earth when each of its five mass ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 26, 2024:

Five mass extinctions is probably not enough data to base patterns on, any appearance of pattern in a set that small is most likely due to mere random chance, and the human failing of being too ready to see patterns. It used to be thought that a pattern could be found, if you included all the twenty...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 26, 2024:

Yes, but these are the 5 biggest, and, with the exception of the last one, which was caused by an asteroid impact, they all occurred when the average temperature spiked. And this is where we are headed now. Even though we are technically still living in an icehouse world, we have the atmospheric CO2 concentration of a hothouse world. We have pushed the CO2 concentration up so fast that the temperature can't keep up. But that won't last long. The ice is melting fast.

Done Cheato says if he's elected he'll be a dictator on "day one." [usatoday.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Mar 25, 2024:

We can't let him anywhere near the White House again, ever!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 25, 2024:

No, not ever. 😐

Lest we forget, in 2022 Trump openly called for "termination" of the Constitution. [apnews.com]

racocn8 comments on Mar 25, 2024:

We already have a SCOTUS that will issues bogus rulings that disregard the Constitution. It's been shredded for a while now... (Citizens United, Dobbs, Section 14-3)

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 25, 2024:

And the recent Article 3, 14th Amendment decision in which the em effing textualists completely ignored the text. 😡

Done Cheato says if he's elected he'll be a dictator on "day one." [usatoday.com]

yvilletom comments on Mar 25, 2024:

Who will his followers obey on Day Two?

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 25, 2024:

Who will he be on day two? Musolini? Hitler? Franco? Stalin? Pinochet? Amin? Putin?

He sold us out.

DenoPenno comments on Mar 25, 2024:

Yes he did.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 25, 2024:

Lock him up!

Done Cheato says if he's elected he'll be a dictator on "day one." [usatoday.com]

RichCC comments on Mar 25, 2024:

I heard a new (to me) mafia-based nickname for tRump today: 'Don Poorleone'. I can only hope it works out that way -- I can't think of a more deserving person.

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 25, 2024:

I love it! It's going into general use immediately! 🤣

China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers, FT reports -- reuters.com

Flyingsaucesir comments on Mar 24, 2024:

China already has stolen gobs, reams, mountains of proprietary information from US companies. They didn't invent industrial espionage, but they have certainly taken it to a whole new level. The don't need Intel's chips (at least not the older ones); they have already cloned them. With this ban ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 24, 2024:

@racocn8 I don't know how they are treating Taiwan vis-a-vis advanced chips. We know their long-term thinking about Taiwan (that the island nation's claim of sovereignty is bollocks). But in the short term it's probably just garden variety economic protectionism.

I hope the Democrats and progressives will come out in rage after the overturning of Roe v Wade and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

All embryos start off female at 2 months old they become androgynous and then environmental and genetic factors kick in and determine what the eventual biological sex will be by chemically accelerating either estrogen or testosterone production .

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 24, 2024:

@LenHazell53 Mmmmm, no, the chromosomal makeup is set at conception. The lucky sperm cell either has one X or one Y chromosome, and the zygote has either two Xs or an X and a Y (except in anomalies, in which case all bets are off). Trust me on this friend. I taught biology for 20 years.

World’s population to fall for first time since the Black Death

273kelvin comments on Mar 23, 2024:

The real problem with falling birthrates is that it signifies a move towards 1st world status. Which carries with it a move towards greater consumerism, pollution, carbon footprint etc. It is the great irony of demographics that poorer 3rd world nations with high birth rates consume far less than ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 24, 2024:

@273kelvin It's cheaper to generate electricity with windmills or solar panels than it is to burn coal. And it won't be long now before only electric cars will be manufactured. (By not long I mean the next 20-odd years.) As global warming has now become become undeniable, its negative effects will become much worse and this will help focus our attention. Don't get me wrong; I'm not being pollyannish. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Hell, they might get a ot worse. We might even pass the tipping point into runaway greenhouse territory and full-blown climate catastrophe. (Nobody knows where exactly that point lies. It could be at 420 ppm CO2; or we may have already crossed the Rubicon. Check out this graph. Each line is the daily average surface ocean temperature for one year, going back to 1979. Sorry for the bad angle.)

World’s population to fall for first time since the Black Death

273kelvin comments on Mar 23, 2024:

The real problem with falling birthrates is that it signifies a move towards 1st world status. Which carries with it a move towards greater consumerism, pollution, carbon footprint etc. It is the great irony of demographics that poorer 3rd world nations with high birth rates consume far less than ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 24, 2024:

Parts of the 3rd world have leapfrogged land phone lines and centralized electricity generation and are instead embracing cell phones and small solar panel arrays. Hopefully this trend will continue and become the standard everywhere. 🤞

Is Agnostic.com dead again? None of the newer posts come up...

michelle666gar comments on Mar 23, 2024:

I can't post anything!

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 23, 2024:

My cell phone service (T-mobile) sucks too. Just went more than an hour with no internet access. Is this what they mean by "unlimited data?"

I hope the Democrats and progressives will come out in rage after the overturning of Roe v Wade and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 22, 2024:

All embryos start off female at 2 months old they become androgynous and then environmental and genetic factors kick in and determine what the eventual biological sex will be by chemically accelerating either estrogen or testosterone production .

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 23, 2024:

Yes they're all morphologically female or androgynous for a while, but except in anomalies, they either have two X chromosomes and are female, or they have one X and one Y, and they're male. But these terms are woefully inadequate to describe the full spectrum of gender identity in the human race.

What have we done....

Flyingsaucesir comments on Mar 22, 2024:

I have to admit, I'm enjoying the spectacle of his downfall, seeing it play out in real time. I only hope Democrats win big up and down the ballot, and then go to work fixing the structural problems in our government. First, do away with the filibuster. Then expand the Supreme Court. Then make ...

Flyingsaucesir replies on Mar 22, 2024:

@St-Sinner Yes, this fight ain't over. Far from it. But I think he's going down. It's just going to take a while longer.

"More than 360,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine" -- ...

Tejas comments on Mar 21, 2024:

What a ridiculous article. It states there have been 364 mass shootings in schools since 1999. But says the number of children effected are in the hundreds of thousands. So every kid enrolled in the school is somehow effected? About 1k students per school. Disingenuous at best. I also think it's ...