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What about the republican promises about the..??.. death stars...no..."death panels". "Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, said this week that Republicans will not try to repeal the Affordable Care Act if they retake the Senate in November's midterm elections, the latest signal that the GOP is abandoning its long-running effort to scrap the health-care law also known as Obamacare.' from WP yesterday. A new poll today on ACA. 'in March 2022 found slightly more than half of the public (55%) hold a favorable opinion of the ACA Views of the ACA are still largely driven by partisanship: nearly nine in ten Democrats (87%) along with six in ten independents (58%) view the law favorably, while eight in ten Republicans (79%) hold unfavorable views"

Unfortunately the black sea has poor oxygen levels and as a consequence less marine life. The depths where it sank are in the 500m range. It will likely have little marine life but will be well preserved for millenia to come. there have been some WW 2 aircraft retrieved from the Black sea which have been very well preserved. Black Sea Wrecks for the divers here.

Moskva cruiser sank while being towed in a storm - Russian Defense Ministry From Tass Moskva cruiser sank while being towed in a storm - Russian Defense Ministry.

The last time Elon did that he got his fingers slapped. He settled for a $40 million fine and had to step down from the board of Tesla. The SEC has enormous power outside the courts and has pockets for legal fights even bigger than Elon's. 'Elon Musk’s huge Twitter investment took a new twist Tuesday with the filing of a lawsuit alleging that the colorful billionaire illegally delayed disclosing his stake in the social media company so he could buy more shares at lower prices.... The lawsuit alleges that by March 14, Musk's stake in Twitter had reached a 5% threshold that required him to publicly disclose his holdings under U.S. securities law by March 24. Musk didn't make the required disclosure until April 4."

If Elon could set aside his twitta-mania. He should buy FOX and begin reprogramming its viewers like Murdoch did with republicans. Soon its meme loving, science hating, logic intolerant, viewers will all be buying Teslas.

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For several decades it has been studied and researched in the US. The answer is at Opensecrets.org. In the US over 3000 people are employed full time. Their efforts result in the expenditure of nearly $700 million dollars a year. No its not the US defense military/industrial complex. No, its not health/medical research. Its the US health care, pharma industrial complex and its lobbying arms. Its implementation of "useful idiots" through its advertising, propaganda and financing of politicians. Its almost six times the size of the defense lobby. Twice the size of the energy lobby and look what they've accomplished with Brent.

It's way better than that. Ukraine postal service issues 'Russian warship, f***k you!' stamp I have from well informed Ukrainian sources that President Zelensky has now ordered a new F**K Putin stamp into immediate production.

Ukraine update: Stunning news as Ukraine reportedly sinks Russia's Black Sea Fleet flagship Doesn't Putin have a summer home near there? Now he'll have some wreck diving to keep him occupied.

Russian propagandists have a term for people that spread propaganda, spread disinformation, disproved theories. Useful idiots.

I was just checking out the same story. The Russian MOD has also reported a fire onboard which set off some ammunition(accident). This is the flagship of the Russian Black sea fleet. A guided missile destroyer with a full complement of the most advanced Russian defense systems including three defensive radars. The UK recently agreed to send harpoon anti-ship missiles to Ukraine. Its about 160 nm from Snake Island to the Sevastopol port. Its 12,500 tons so more cruiser class. "The flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, the Moskva missile cruiser, was badly damaged when ammunition on board blew up, Interfax news agency quoted the defence ministry as saying on Thursday. Interfax said the crew had been evacuated. It blamed the blast on a fire and said the cause was being investigated. A Ukrainian official earlier said the Moskva had been hit by two missiles but did not give any evidence."

We all hope that word doesn't get out that Brent is a traitor to the right. Because of his Disney trip. The mocking he would get at Uncle Billy Bob's "Guns and Liquor" would be humiliating.

When you grasp at straws to prop up your beliefs. They all look the same.

After 19 years we all know you won't haul organic arugula home in a Prius. In 1811 the British parliament passed a law making the breaking of machinery a capital offense. Rising living costs. New ideas, Job training for heavens sake. The wrecking of knitting machines was like the current day attacks on gays and Disney. When people feel their entire existence is under relentless attack. They rebel and defer to tradition. Be brave Brent. Hang in there.

Well not really. Ukraine's population is 44 million. The current decree/order is for all males between 18 and 60 to report for service/enlistment. Draft dodgers excepted. So I'd guess the armed forces/reserves could be 18 million perhaps. All they need is 18 million AK-47s. Probably the amount that Texas has now. But i digress. Body armor, grenades, mortars, RPGs and Russia would have NO CHANCE of success Let alone if Ukrainian women started to join the fight. The deciding factors are Ukrainian morale. The bite of sanctions on Russia which will really need a year to take serious effect. Given that Ukraine has been fighting for four years now. I'd say that Putin may pull away from the table due to indigestion. Recognizing that the meal he ordered was bigger than his eyes.

Hunter Biden, the e-mails, etc. All just noise to conceal the real underbelly of GOP, stench, corruption. The real question is where is the quid-pro quo? "Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, a close ally during the Trump administration, despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal.... Ethics experts say that such a deal creates the appearance of potential payback for Mr. Kushner’s actions in the White House — or of a bid for future favor if Mr. Trump seeks and wins another presidential term in 2024. Mr. Kushner played a leading role inside the Trump administration defending Crown Prince Mohammed after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that he had approved the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi columnist for The Washington Post and resident of Virginia who had criticized the kingdom’s rulers." Just recently MBS made a deal with Turkey and its Putin lackey president. Turkey Transfers Khashoggi Murder Trial to Saudi Arabia More corrupt..Turkey...Saudi Arabia...The GOP?

Thats all just a narrative sold to the peasants.

Because the republican gang has well defined walls of self protection. Because the American justice system protects its presidents like the UK protects its royalty. OK, not as much as the UK and its royalty. But when presidents are immune from having to testify under oath. When they get special treatment from prosecutors. When they can give away get outa jail free cards.

Well you'd be right. Then each of the 47... Why do they remind me of the 47 Ronin of the movie. Who when left leaderless by the death of their leader, that would be the hero John McCain. Went on to betray the country through violent insurrection. Now this is where the movie digresses from republicans. Because in the movie the Ronin went on to fight for honor, justice, courage,character, etc. Whereas here in real life. These 47 have none of those qualities.

Conservatives love to dream of nirvana; "a state of perfect quietude, freedom, highest happiness as well as the liberation from attachment and worldly suffering". Like America was just before the civil war. Where masculine men rode bare chested on horseback. Overseeing willing subjects laboring in the fields.

Dental care program for kids under 12 will roll out by end of year: Budget 2022 Well the budget came out today. Perhaps you can explain to the Canadian finance minister. Why even deficit budgets are not an "either or equation". Money for a new housing program, dental care, native compensation. Nothing for new defense spending. Whats asinine is people that don't understand that even deficits have limits. That an absence of spending on defense. Has always been an liberal tradition.

Its coming: "Exxon scientists recorded the evidence about the dangers of burning fossil fuels. In 1978, its science adviser, James Black, warned that there was a “window of five to ten years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategy might become critical”. ...“systematic, organised campaign by Exxon and other oil companies to sow doubt about the science and prevent meaningful action”. The report accused the energy companies of not only polluting the air but also “the information landscape” by replicating the cigarette makers’ playbook of cherry-picking data, using fake experts and promoting conspiracy theories to attack a growing scientific consensus." Today there are lawsuits to hold big oil to account. Just as tobacco was held to account for its lies.

Perhaps there should be a software change to SC to allow negative ratings for misinformation. "In the Sovacool study cited above, it was found that wind farms are responsible for 0.3 bird deaths per gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity, whereas fossil-fuel power stations are responsible for 5.2 fatalities per GWh. and Brent's favorite

Yeah, but is your reputation higher on Truth Social?

That likely won't make much of a difference to the new mainstream republican party. At an America First Political Action Committee meeting in Orlando recently the call rang out. “Can we get a round of applause for Russia?” he asked. The crowd chanted “Putin! Putin!” For the US congresswoman in attendance it was more of the same. "As mainstream republicans are pushed out of trump's party. U.S. conservative evangelicals have developed strong symbolic and institutional ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. In recent years, these have dovetailed with white racist fantasies of Russia as an ethnically pure land of traditional religion and gender roles, symbolized by the bare-chested kleptocrat on horseback, Vladimir Putin... In the summer of 2018, the white supremacist League of the South debuted a bold new initiative on its website: in Russian, the neo-Confederates invited “the Russian people” to understand themselves as “natural allies” of white U.S. southerners in the fight “against the destructive influence of globalism.” As descendants of white Europeans, we come from the same genetic pool. As heirs of the European cultural tradition, we share the same values, traditions, and way of life. And as Christians, we worship the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and our common Faith binds us as brothers and sisters. We Southerners believe in a society built on real organic factors such as Blood, Culture, and Religion." This article summarizes the current delema of the US Christian right and the war in Ukraine. "War in Ukraine is testing some American evangelicals’ support for Putin as a leader of conservative values"