Uncommon Sense with Josh Colletta
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- ...as opposed to a Boeing 747-8 that *wasn't* made in the United States of America? Yeah, sure, it's been outfitted elsewhere, but it was made here FIRST, then sent over there. Hawley, in addition to being a Nazi terrorist and coward, is a fucking idiot.
- Hawley: "I'd think we ought to have a big, beautiful jet, but I'd like it to be made in the United States of America."
- ...as opposed to a Boeing 747-8 that *wasn't* made in the United States of America? Yeah, sure, it's been outfitted elsewhere, but it was made here FIRST, then sent over there. Hawley, in addition to being a Nazi terrorist and coward, is a fucking idiot.
- It is, indeed, good, right, and salutary that we should, at all times and in all places, mock and laugh at Beanie Boy.
- Probably best not to be *taking* advice from a man who spent the weekend swimming in a literal shit-filled creek with his grandchildren.
- The US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at a House subcommittee hearing, calls vaccines “irrelevant,” but says he'd probably inoculate his own kid against measles. Asked about immunizations against polio, he replies: "I don't want to be giving advice.”
- Probably best not to be *taking* advice from a man who spent the weekend swimming in a literal shit-filled creek with his grandchildren.
- Well THAT'S a blatant and demonstrable lie.
- The anti-press playbook used in eroding democracies like Hungary, India and Brazil is being deployed in the United States, New York Times Publisher AG Sulzberger warned. If carried out successfully, it will undermine the independent reporting that’s critical for society.
- Well THAT'S a blatant and demonstrable lie.
- Rejection of racism is is not intolerance, it is mandatory to being a good person. Afrikaners are violent, racist subjugators by definition. It is their history and it is their reason for being. Bill's post is not intolerant, it is morally and factually correct.
- WRONG. Corruption does NOT require explicit quid pro quo. The Emoluments Clause does'nt even imply quid prop quo. It's not only about selling out the country, it's about personal enrichment via public office. That's still corruption. Terms DO matter, so learn them before you lecture.
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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View full threadCorruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- WRONG. Corruption does NOT require explicit quid pro quo. The Emoluments Clause does'nt even imply quid prop quo. It's not only about selling out the country, it's about personal enrichment via public office. That's still corruption. Terms DO matter, so learn them before you lecture.
